threefold suffering
“duḥkhatraya”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the threefold suffering · duḥkha · suffering
spoken of as
1 expressionduḥkha“threefold suffering”1 mention
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana (Sanskrit)
] bodily and mental, born of the disorders [of wind, bile, phlegm] and of desire and the rest.
in the texts
Sāṃkhyakārikā
The threefold affliction whose removal motivates the entire philosophical inquiry of the text.
Because of the affliction caused by the threefold suffering there arises the desire to know the means of removing it.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Suffering classified into internal (adhyātmika, itself bodily and mental), elemental (ādhibhautika), and divine (ādhidaivika) kinds.
] bodily and mental, born of the disorders [of wind, bile, phlegm] and of desire and the rest.
] That which arises from the divine [powers]—cold, wind, and the rest—is the divine (ādhidaivika).
] Suffering (duḥkha) is threefold.