something's [being] an omnipresent cause Def.: Def: an afflicted phenomenon that is a producer of a later afflicted phenomenon-- which is its effect--on the same ground as it Comment: An illustration is desire ('dod chags). There are six types of causes: fruitional cause (rnam smin gyi rgyu), co-arisen cause (lhan cig byung ba'i rgyu), creative cause (byed rgyu), cause of similar lot (skal mnyam gyi rgyu), omnipresent cause (kun 'gro'i rgyu), and associational cause (mtshungs ldan gyi rgyu).