..who had no more earthly desires..

klea, 'pain, affliction, distress,' 'care, trouble' (M.W.). The Chinese tr. is similar,
distress, worry, trouble, and whatever causes them. Keith interprets klea by 'infection', 'contamination', 'defilement'. The Chinese intp. is the delusions, trials, or temptations of the passions and of ignorance which disturb and distress the mind; also in brief as the three poisons desire, detestation, and delusion. There is a division into the six fundamental , or afflictions, v. below, and the twenty which result or follow them and there are other dual divisions. The six are: and desire, detestation, delusion, pride, doubt, and evil views, which last are the false views of a permanent ego, etc. The ten are the first five, and the sixth subdivided into five. , like klea, implies moral affliction or distress, trial, temptation, tempting, sin. Cf. . The Buddhist term kilesa (Pali; Sanskrit: klea or klesha) is typically translated as "defilement" or "poison". In early Buddhist texts the kilesas generally referred to mental states which temporarily cloud the mind and manifest in unskillful actions. Over time the kilesas, and in particular the "Three Poisons" of greed, hatred, and delusion, came to be seen as the very roots of samsaric existence.