intention or volition which may be wholesome or unwholesome; it is also the deed motivated by volition.
intentional action or cause leading to an effect.
For Buddhism, as in Hinduism, this is the moral law of cause and effect. People build up karma (both good and bad) as a result of their actions. This then determines the state of existence to which one is reborn after birth. In Buddhism, the different levels can include hells, humans or animals in this world, or one of several heavens.
Lit: action. In Buddhism it is the intentional acts done by body speech and mind which may be good, bad or neutral which have a resultant effect on the doer
kamma; Skt. karma]: Intentional acts that result in states of being and birth. [ MORE
Acts of intention that result in states of being and birth. 'Kamma debts' are the moral debts one has to others either through having been a burden to them (the primary example being one's debt to one's parents) or from having wronged them.
(Pali) The principle of causality in moral experience.
action or cause which is created or recreated by habitual impulse, volitions, natural energies. In popular usage, it often includes the sense of the result or effect of the action, although the proper term for this is vipaka. (In Sanskrit: karma)
Intentional act. Sanskrit form: karma.
"Action" denotes the wholesome and unwholesome volitions and their concomitant mental factors, causing rebirth and shaping the character of beings and thereby their destiny. The term does not signify the result of actions and most certainly not the deterministic fate of man.
Intentional acts that results in states of becoming and rebirth.