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སྤྲོས་པ་མེད། | Glossary of Terms
སྤྲོས་པ་མེད།
spros pa med
niṣprapañca
- Term
- Unelaborated
- མ་སྤྲོས་པ།
- ma spros pa
- —
- Unelaborated
- སྤྲོས་པ་མེད།
- སྤྲོས་མེད།
- spros pa med
- spros med
- niṣprapañca
- Unelaborated
- སྤྲོས་པ་མེད་པ།
- spros pa med pa
- niṣprapañca
- Absence of conceptual elaborations
- སྤྲོས་མེད།
- སྤྲོས་པ་མེད་པ།
- spros med
- spros pa med pa
- —
Also translated here as “without conceptual elaborations.”
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Free from mental elaboration
- སྤྲོད་པ་མེད་པ།
- sprod pa med pa
- niṣprapañca
Free from concepts or mental fabrications.
- Free from thought construction
- སྤྲོས་པ་དང་བྲལ་བ།
- spros pa dang bral ba
- niṣprapañca
- Unelaborateness
- སྤྲོས་པ་མེད་པ།
- spros pa med pa
- niṣprapañca
A term used and translated variously in Indian and Buddhist literature. Closely related to being free of conceptualization, it refers here to the simple nature of phenomena, their emptiness without the conceptualization of the mind that is imposed upon them.
- What cannot be elaborated
- མ་སྤྲོས་པ།
- ma spros pa
- aprapañca
- Without conceptual elaborations
- སྤྲོས་མེད།
- spros med
- —
Also translated here as “absence of conceptual elaborations.”