degeneration of views, impurity of view; corruption of views, one of the {snyigs ma lnga} five degenerations
{rab byung gi dge phyogs rgud pa lta ba'i snyigs ma} 'degeneration of views' [into eternalism and nihilism] is the decline in the virtues of the ordained [sangha]; one of {rtsod dus kyi snyigs ma lnga}