Niṣprapañca

niṣprapañca [alt. niḥprapañca] (P. nippapañca; T. spros pa dang bral ba [alt. spros bral]; C. buxilun) is translated as "freedom from conceptual proliferation," etc. It refers "the absence of creating mental construct or conceptual formulations about the nature of things."

It is the state that occurs when conceptual elaboration (prapañca) ceases.

The Princeton Dictionary states:

Niṣprapañca refers to the absence of that which is fanciful, imagined, or superfluous, especially in the sense of the absence of a quality that is mistakenly projected onto an object. This false quality is called prapañca, which has the sense of “diffusion” or “expansion,” viz., “conceptual proliferation.” Such “proliferation” typically takes the form of a chaotic onslaught of thoughts and associations at the conclusion of the apprehension of an object by one of the five sensory consciousnesses. Those thoughts and associations are then objectified, projecting a false reality onto the sense object. Such projections are thus described as operations of ignorance. Reality is free from such elaborations, and wisdom is the state of mind that perceives this reality.

A synonym for niṣprapañca is aprapañca.

External links

• སྤྲོས་བྲལ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
• སྤྲོས་པ་དང་བྲལ་བ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary