Prasrabhi

For the equivalent Theravada term, see passaddhi.
Translations of
Prasrabhi
English pliancy,
alertness,
flexibility
Pali passaddhi
Sanskrit prasrabhi, praśrabdhi
Chinese 輕安(T) / 轻安(S)
Korean 경안
(RR: gyeongan)
Tibetan ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ།
(Wylie: shin tu sbyang ba;
THL: shintu jangwa
)
Glossary of Buddhism

Prasrabhi (Sanskrit; Tibetan: ཤིན་ཏུ་སྦྱང་བ་, Tibetan Wylie: shin tu sbyang ba, Pali: passaddhi) is a Mahayana Buddhist term translated as "pliancy", "flexibility", or "alertness". It is defined as the ability to apply body and mind towards virtuous activity.[1][2] Prasrabhi is identified as:

The Abhidharma-samuccaya states:

What is alertness? It is the pliability of body and mind in order to interrupt the continuity of the feeling of sluggishness in body and mind. Its function is to do away with all obscurations.[1]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Guenther (1975), Kindle Locations 623-624.
  2. Kunsang (2004), p. 25.

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