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སྤྲོས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
- Term
- conceptual elaboration
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
This term denotes the presence of discursive or conceptual thought processes. Their absence or deconstruction is characteristic of the realization of emptiness or actual reality.
- conceptual elaboration
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
This term denotes the presence of discursive or conceptual thought processes. Their absence or deconstruction is characteristic of the realization of emptiness or actual reality.
- mental elaboration
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
This term denotes the presence of discursive or conceptual thought processes. Their absence or deconstruction is characteristic of the realization of emptiness or ultimate reality.
- mental elaboration
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
- conceptualization
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
An etymologically obscure term, which can mean elaboration, diffusion, or expansion, but is basically describing the mind’s conceptualization, and is always connected to the words for notions and ideas, and mental fabrications.
- discursive elaboration
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca
Also called “constructs,” “mental constructs,” “mental fabrication,” or “proliferations.”
- mental activity
- སྤྲོས་པ།
- spros pa
- prapañca