[Buddha-l] Prapanca

[Piya Tan]

Your level of prapa~nca (Pali papa~nca) is inversely proportional to your
understanding
of Buddhism (as Buddha Dharma). A good example of a prapanca-based activity
is
what we get on this website. That is why no one is really happy on this
website, but
they keep coming back because they could not find it anywhere else anyway.

Piya Tan

On Feb 13, 2008 7:33 AM, Wong Weng Fai <wongwf at comp.nus.edu.sg> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Jamie Hubbard wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> The Chinese term for prapanca is "xi lun" - "xi" as in "playful", "games",
> "dramatic", "frivolous". "lun" as in "theory", "speculation". I think
> "mental masturbation" would be a pretty close modern equivalence.
>
> W.F. Wong
>
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