Dear Nina and friends,

thanks for everything, Nina. I agree that for sections of the suttas
like this, better knowledge of Pali and experience in practice will
be very helpful in translation.

I will update cittasa'nkhaara as mental formations.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, nina van gorkom wrote:
cittasa'nkhaara = citta + sa'nkhaara : mental functions: this is more
difficult. We need the Visuddhimagga here: As to VI and VII,
experiencing mental formation, citta sankhara, and tranquillizing
mental formation: the Vis. VIII, 229, explains that mental formation
pertains here to feeling and perception, sanna. The feeling is
associated with perception (Vis. VIII, 230). The Vis. quotes here
from the Path of Discrimination: <perception and feeling being
cetasikas... , these things are bound up with citta and are mind
functions.
N: Sankhaarakkhandha are all cetasikas except feeling and sa~n~naa,
but in this context it pertains to just feeling and perception. This
tetrad pertains to the second Application of Mindfulness, of
feelings. Mental functions is not wrong, but if we use mental
formations we keep in mind sankhaara.