Rasa
Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia is now 14 years old
Our Encyclopedia recently received a wonderful opportunity for a major renewal on its 14th birthday . After many years of growing our Encyclopedia had become bit slow and sometimes even decided not to answer when people knocked on the door.
A very big thank you and blessings to Dmytro Rudiy (rudiy.nl) for his great work in upgrading the server, website and all of the infrastructure and helping make TBE fast and reliable again for everyone!
We kindly ask our readers to help us cover the cost of this important upgrade and also help with the ongoing costs of keeping the Encyclopedia alive and freely available.
or card
Every little donation helps and every one is deeply appreciated. 🙏🙏🙏
OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM 🙏🙏🙏
May blessings shower down on all of yous 🙏🙏🙏
Taste;
Function or achievement.
'taste'; Property of matter (rupa).
Every living entity, beginning from Brahmā, the first-born living being within the material world, down to the insignificant ant, desires to relish some sort of taste derived from sense perceptions. These sensual pleasures are technically called rasas. Such rasas are of different varieties.
In the revealed scriptures the following twelve varieties of rasas are enumerated:
raudra (anger),
adbhuta (wonder),
śṛṅgāra (conjugal love),
hāsya (comedy),
vīra (chivalry),
dayā (mercy),
dāsya (servitorship),
sakhya (fraternity),
bhayānaka (horror),
bībhatsa (shock),
śānta (neutrality),
vātsalya (parenthood)