[Buddha-l] Prapanca

[Piya Tan]

That's close; the usual translation is "mental proliferation". Anyway it is
one of the most
hotly debated terms in early Buddhism. In terms of example, Richard has
given a good example below.

Piya

On Feb 13, 2008 4:38 PM, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Richard Hayes schreef:
> > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:46 +0800, Piya Tan wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > As I understand it, prapanca is, among other things, narratives we
> > impose on our experiences to try to make sense of them. These narratives
> > are rarely well founded and contain speculations that conform more to
> > our prejudices than to fact. A good example of such a speculation is the
> > claim that no one is really happy on this website. It's a wild guess,
> > unsupported by any kind of evidence, made in conformity with a dogmatic
> > adherence to doctrinal Buddhism.
> >
> >
> Perhaps 'discursivity' in the sense of making a discourse would be an
> acceptable translation.
>
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