Krodha (Mental factor)

Not to be confused with Wrathful deities.

For other uses, see Krodha.

Krodha (Sanskrit: क्रोध; Tibetan Wylie: khro ba) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "fury", "rage", or "indignation". Within the Mahayana Abhidharma tradition, krodha is identified as one of the twenty subsidiary unwholesome mental factors. It is defined as an increase of anger (Sanskrit: pratigha) that causes one to prepare to harm others.^[1][2]

Translations of krodha
English	fury rage indigation
Sanskrit	krodha
Chinese	忿
Japanese	忿 (Rōmaji: fun)
Khmer	ក្រោធ (UNGEGN: Krout)
Tibetan	ཁྲོ་བ་ (Wylie: khro ba; THL: khroba)
Glossary of Buddhism

According to Herber Guenther, the difference between anger (pratigha) and fury (krodha) is that anger is a vindictive or hostile attitude in one's mind, but fury is an increase in anger when the chance for harming is at hand and is it very agitated state of mind leading to actual physical harm.^[1]

Alexander Berzin states:

Hatred (khro-ba) is a part of hostility (dvesha) and is the harsh intention to cause harm.^[3]

Note that according to Berzin, dvesha is a sub-category of anger (pratigha).

See also

• Kleshas (Buddhism)
• Mental factors (Buddhism)
• Wrathful deities

Hinduism

• Arishadvargas, six enemies
• Akrodha (Hinduism)