Niṣprapañca
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| Key Term | niṣprapañca |
|---|---|
| Topic Variation | nonconceptuality |
| Hover Popup Choices | freedom from reference points; nonconceptuality |
| In Tibetan Script | སྤྲོས་བྲལ་ |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | spros bral |
| Devanagari Sanskrit Script | निष्प्रपञ्च |
| Romanized Sanskrit | niṣprapañca |
| English Standard | nonconceptuality |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | freedom from reference points |
| Richard Barron's English Term | unembellished; free from (conceptual) elaborations; unelaborate |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | free from elaborations |
| Alternate Spellings | spros pa dang bral ba |
| Term Type | Adjective |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | Freedom from conceptual elaborations. |
| Has the Sense of | That which is unadulterated by the complexities or artifice of thought patterns. |
| Definitions | |
| Rangjung Yeshe's English Term | 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 |