Meanings
nountanha (uncountable)
- uncountableBuddhismCravings; desires.
The Buddhist concept of tanha, for example — roughly translated as “blind demandingness” — encapsulates many tenets of R.E.B.T. and points the way toward emotional equanimity: stop asking more of the universe than it can possibly deliver.
2009 May 10, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in New York Times
Origin
Transliteration of Pali taṇhā.
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