pramāda
Sign in to savePramāda (Sanskrit; Pāli: pamada; Tibetan phonetic: bakmepa) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "heedlessness", "carelessness", etc. In the Mahayana tradition, pramāda is defined to not apply oneself earnestly and carefully to adopting a wholesome attitude and abandoning unwholesome actions.
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Pramāda (Sanskrit; Pāli: pamada; Tibetan phonetic: bakmepa) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "heedlessness", "carelessness", etc. In the Mahayana tradition, pramāda is defined to not apply oneself earnestly and carefully to adopting a wholesome attitude and abandoning unwholesome actions.
Pramāda is identified as: One of the twenty secondary unwholesome factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings