Category: Buddhism

Dependent Arising

Dependent Arising

The doctrine of Pratitya-samutpada (Sanskrit: pratītya-samutpāda, Pali: paticca samuppada Tibetan: rten cing ‘brel bar ‘byung ba) is Buddhism’s primary contribution to metaphysics. Common to all Schools of Buddhism, it states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect. It is variously rendered into English as “dependent origination,” “conditioned genesis,” “dependent co-arising,” “interdependent arising,” etc. Contents...