Middha

Translations of Middha
English	torpor sleep drowsiness
Pali	मिद्ध (middha)
Sanskrit	मिद्ध (middha)
Chinese	睡眠 (T) / 睡眠 (S) 眠 (T) / 眠 (S)
Korean	수면, 면 (RR: sumyeon, myeon)
Tibetan	གཉིད། (Wylie: gnyid; THL: nyi)
Glossary of Buddhism

Middha (Sanskrit, Pali; Tibetan phonetic: nyi) is a Buddhist term that is translated as "torpor", "drowsiness", "sleep", etc. In the Theravada tradition, middha is defined as a morbid state that is characterized by unwieldiness, lack of energy, and opposition to wholesome activity. In the Mahayana tradition, middha is defined as a mental factor that causes the mind to draw inward, lose discrimination between wholesome and unwholesome activities, and drop out of activities altogether.

Middha is identified as:

Bhikkhu Bodhi explains:

The Atthasālinī (II, Book I, Part IX, Chapter II, 255) states about sloth and torpor: “Absence of striving, difficulty through inability, is the meaning.” We then read the following definitions of sloth and torpor:

Nina van Gorkom explains:

The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:

Mipham Rinpoche states:

Alexander Berzin explains:

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