Māna

• One of the five poisons within the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.
• One of the six root unwholesome mental factors within the Mahayana Abhidharma teachings
• One of the fourteen unwholesome mental factors within the Theravada Abhidharma teachings
• One of the ten fetters in the Theravada tradition

  Explanations

Theravada

Mahayana

• Arrogance is a puffed-up mind that feels one is better than someone who has inferior qualities.
• Exaggerated arrogance is a puffed-up mind that feels one is better than one's peers.
• Outrageous arrogance is a puffed-up mind that feels one is better than someone superior to oneself in some quality.
• Egotistic arrogance is a puffed-up mind that thinks “me” while focusing on our own samsara-perpetuating aggregates.
• False or anticipatory arrogance or arrogance of showing off is a puffed-up mind that feels I have attained some quality that I have not actually attained or not yet attained; or thinking one has achievements when one has achieved nothing.
• Modest arrogance or arrogance of thinking small is a puffed-up mind that feels that I am just a little bit inferior compared to someone vastly superior to myself in some quality, but still superior to almost everyone else.
• Distorted arrogance or perverted arrogance is a puffed-up mind that feels that some deviant aspect that I have fallen to is a good quality that I have attained—for instance, being a good hunter.