Kamupadana, Kāmopādāna, Kāmupādāna, Kama-upadana, Kamopadana: 5 definitions

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Kamupadana means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

[«previous next»] — Kamupadana in Theravada glossary
Source: Dhamma Dana: Pali English Glossary

N (Sensuous pleasure (kama); greed (upadana)). Greed or craving for sensuous pleasures.

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

'sensuous clinging', is one of the 4 kinds of clinging (upādāna).

Source: Dhamma Study: Cetasikas

sensuous clinging; One of the four Updanas; Sensuous clinging comprises clinging to all the objects which can be experienced through the senses.

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

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Buddhist philosophy

Source: Google Books: Abhidharmakosa-Bhasya of Vasubandhu

Kāmopādāna (कामोपादान) refers to the “desire grasping” and represents one of the four graspings (upādāna), according to Dharmaśrī’s Abhidharmahṛdaya 86 and the Saṃyuktābhidharmahṛdaya 196, 200-3.—Accordingly, “Desire grasping (kāmopādāna) = desire yoke (kāmayoga) plus the ignorances of the realm of desire = five attachments, five hostilities, five conceits, five ignorances, four doubts, ten envelopments= thirty-four real-entities”.

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Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

[«previous next»] — Kamupadana in Pali glossary
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Kāmupādāna refers to: clinging to sensuality, arising from taṇhā, as k° diṭṭhi° sīlabbata°, attavāda° D. III, 230; M. I, 51; Vbh. 136, 375; Vism. 569;

Note: kāmupādāna is a Pali compound consisting of the words kāma and upādāna.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

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