pratītyasamutpāda
Also known as dependent origination, dependent coarising, contingent coarising, contingent origination, web of causality, chain of causation, web of causation, chain of causality
thumb|upright=1.5|Brick inscribed with the Sutra on Dependent Origination. Found in Gopalpur, Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh. Dated , Gupta Empire|Gupta period. [[Ashmolean Museum.]]
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56 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Etymology
- Dependent origination in early Buddhism
- The principle of conditionality
- Variable phenomena, invariant principle
- Invariant principle
- Variable phenomena – dependently arisen processes
- Conditionality and liberation
- The Buddha's discovery of conditionality
- Seeing the dharma
- Application
- Conditionality as the middle way – not-self and emptiness
- The four noble truths
- Lists of nidanas
- Lists of nidanas
- The twelve nidanas
- Alternative lists in SN/SA
- Alternative lists in other Nikayas
- Correlation with the five aggregates
- Development of the twelve nidanas
- Commentary on Vedic cosmogeny
- Synthesis of older lists
- Early synthesis by the Buddha
- Bucknell's thesis
- The 12 nidānas as an early list
- Comparison of lists
- Transcendental/reverse dependent origination
- Comparison of Lists
- Interpretations
- Conditionality
- Necessary and sufficient conditions
- Abhidharma views of conditionality
- Conditioned or unconditioned?
- Ontological principle
- Relations of being, becoming, existence and ultimate reality
- Rebirth
- Analysis of rebirth without a self
- Abhidharma three life model
- Mental processes
- Abhidharma interpretations
- Modern interpretations
- Mahāyāna interpretations
- Non-arising
- Madhyamaka
- Yogācāra
- The 12 nidanas in Mahāyāna sutras and tantras
- Tibetan interpretations
- Interdependence
- Comparison with western philosophy
- See also
- Notes
- Quotes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.5|Brick inscribed with the Sutra on Dependent Origination. Found in Gopalpur, Gorakhpur District, Uttar Pradesh. Dated , Gupta Empire|Gupta period. [[Ashmolean Museum.]]
Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद, Pāli: paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key doctrine in Buddhism shared by all schools of Buddhism. It states that all dharmas (phenomena) arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist". The basic principle is that all things (dharmas, phenomena, principles) arise in dependence upon other things.