vāsana (13567)

vāsana
Entry 13567, Page 478, Col. 2

(vAsana, vAsana)
vāsana¦, nt., much more commonly °nā (= Pali °nā, no °na recorded; °nā, but not °na, is used in a closely similar way in Skt.), impression, result of past deeds and experience on the personality; Lévi, Sūtrāl. xx-xxi.54 imprégnation, les appétits en tant que résultant d'actes antérieurs; commonly (PTSD, LaV-P. on AbhidhK. iv. 249, Suzuki, Gloss.) derived from Skt. vāsayati, per- fumes; Suzuki, l.c., perfuming impression, memory, habit- energy; LaV-P. op. cit. vii.72, 77 etc., traces; the nt. °nam occurs in AbhidhK. LaV-P. iv. 249 and Index, also Laṅk 265.17 (vs) vāsanair; regularly in bad sense, as some- thing to be got rid of, Sūtrāl. l.c., above; rāgadoṣakaluṣā sāvāsanā (for sa°, m.c.) uddhṛtā LV 291.1 (vs), passion, hatred, and impurity, with the (evil) impressions (of the past; so Tib., bag chags bcas), are destroyed; sarvā rāga- kileśa bandhanalatā sāvāsanā (as in prec.; so mss., here Lefm. em. so vā°!) chetsyati LV 294.6 (vs), he will cut off all the creepers of bondage…together with the impres- sions (Tib. as above); °nā Mvy 6594 = Tib. bag chags (so regularly), habit, inclination, propensity (Das), Jä. passion instead of habit; stated to be usually bad tho sometimes good; LV 428.2 (prose); 433.19 (prose); Gv 496.13 (prose); Laṅk 37.19; 38.2 ff.; vāsanā-vāsita, per- [Page479-a+ 71] meated by impressions, Laṅk 92.16 etc., here regularly in bad sense (cf. below); vāsanābhiniveśa-vāsita Laṅk 80.8--9; sometimes in a good sense, vāsanā-bhāgīyāṃ sattvāṃ vāsanāyām avasthāpayanto (or °yamāno) Mv i.34.5; ii.419.5, (the Buddha) making creatures that participate in (good) impressions (note preceding parallels puṇya and phala) firm in (such an) impression; see vāsita-vāsana, which is complimentary in LV and Mv; perh. indifferent, incl. both good and bad, yathāgatisaṃbandha-vāsanā- vāsita-tāṃ ca (yathābhūtaṃ prajānāti) Dbh 75.21-22.

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