[Buddha-l] Prapanca

[Piya Tan]

The only mono-prapanca I know on the subject is Bhikkhu ~Naanananda's
"Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought" (1971). Maybe some new
insights
may have been published after that.

Piya


On Feb 13, 2008 9:46 AM, Piya Tan <dharmafarer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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