[Buddha-l] Prapanca

Tue Feb 12 14:25:40 MST 2008

>>> Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> 02/12/08 3:34 PM >>>

Let's get really serious about Buddhism for a minute. What the hell IS 
prapanca/papanca? Is it just a Buddhist word for bullshit, or does it have a 
more precise meaning?

This is pretty close to what Min Kiyota gave us grad students lo those decades ago: mental diarrhea, trying to capture, I believe, the "prolifferation" aspect of papanca.

Jamie