Key Terms/Niṣprapañca

From Bodhicitta


निष्प्रपञ्च niṣprapañca
nonconceptuality
སྤྲོས་བྲལ་
spros bral
Sanskrit - Adjective
1·Discover

Basic Meaning

Freedom from conceptual elaborations.

2·Explore

Has the sense of

That which is unadulterated by the complexities or artifice of thought patterns.

In other languages
Tibetan
སྤྲོས་བྲལ་
spros bral
Sanskrit
निष्प्रपञ्च
niṣprapañca
How translators render it
nonconceptualityBuddha-nature Standard
freedom from reference pointsKarl Brunnhölzl
unembellishedRichard Barron
free from (conceptual) elaborationsRichard Barron
unelaborateRichard Barron
free from elaborationsJeffrey Hopkins
In the dictionaries
Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

Simplicity. 1) The absence of creating mental construct or conceptual formulations about the nature of things. 2) The second stage in the practice of Mahamudra. simplicity, freedom from/ free of (conceptual) elaborations; unembellished free of elaborations, freedom from conceptual elaboration. freedom from constructing, non-complex, simplicity, without fabrication. unconditioned. "Free from [mental] complexities / elaborations / fabrications, 2) one of the {phyag rgya chen po'i rnal 'byor bzhi} the four yogas of Mahamudra. the second yoga of Mahamudra, "beyond playwords"; free of conceptual elaborations; free of conceptual complication; free of mental elaborations, free of elaborations, see also {spros bral rnal 'byor}. freedom from constructs, simplicity

Term type
Adjective
Source language
Sanskrit
Topic
nonconceptuality
Alternate spellings
spros pa dang bral ba