Mada (Buddhism)

Mada is a Buddhist term translated as "self-satisfaction", "self-infatuation", or "mental inflation". It is identified as one of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings. In this context, it is defined as having excessive pride or vanity based on attachment to one's own good fortune, such as possessing youth, good health, or material wealth.

Definitions

The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:
Herbert Guenther explains:
Mipham Rinpoche states:
Alexander Berzin explains: