Talk:Sukha

Options for article expansion beyond the Pali literature[edit]

Based on this article's Pali title (sukha) and my own knowledge limitations, I've developed this article in terms of Buddhism's Pali literature. While I plan to continue to expand it along these lines presently, I can appreciate that others might want to expand this article further in one or more of the following manners:

include Buddhist post-Pali-canonical Sanskrit sources
include non-Buddhist Sanskrit material
include Buddhist non-Pali, non-Sanskrit material (as has already been started by the inclusion of the Tibetan correlate for sukha)

If any of these are done, I request that the bulk of the current material (e.g., from the section currently entitled "General life pursuit" to "Feeling attribute") be subsumed under a level-2 title such as "From the Pali literature." I think this would be intellectually cleaner than, for instance, attempting to intermix other tradition's ideas under each of the existing sectional titles.

In addition, if non-Pali, non-Sanskrit (e.g., Tibetan) material is added, then I would like to suggest that this article be moved to something like Happiness (Buddhism), although I intuit that such might become unmanageable since even in terms of the Pali literature it would likely include information way beyond little ole "sukha."

If you disagree, I'd appreciate it if you would first discuss your thoughts here. Thanks,
Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 17:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, FWIW, I just sectioned off the aforementioned material under the header "Pali literature." Hope the above satisfactorially explains why. With metta, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 17:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]