| Term |
ripening cause
Referenced by: cause, ripening (cross-reference only) |
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| Tibetan | rnam-smin-gyi rgyu |
| Sanskrit | vipakahetu |
| Pali | |
| Definition | A destructive or tainted constructive phenomenon that, unless one has rid one's mental continuum forever of craving, has the power to produce the nonobstructive unspecified items contained in the five aggregate factors of future rebirth states, such as the body, the types of consciousness, and the feelings. |
| German | reifende Ursache |
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| Italian | causa maturante |
| Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... | fruitional cause |
| Russian | созревающая причина |