पटिच्चसमुप्पाद
Paṭicca-samuppāda
Dependent Origination / Dependent Co-arising
緣起
Grammar 語法
compound: paṭicca (depending on, based on) + samuppāda (arising together — from saṃ + uppāda)
Definition 釋義
The teaching of conditioned co-arising — the most philosophically profound teaching in early Buddhism. It explains the arising and cessation of dukkha through twelve interdependent links: (1) Avijjā (ignorance) → (2) Saṅkhārā (formations) → (3) Viññāṇa (consciousness) → (4) Nāmarūpa (name-and-form) → (5) Saḷāyatana (six sense bases) → (6) Phassa (contact) → (7) Vedanā (feeling) → (8) Taṇhā (craving) → (9) Upādāna (clinging) → (10) Bhava (becoming) → (11) Jāti (birth) → (12) Jarā-maraṇa (aging-and-death). The cessation works in reverse: with the cessation of ignorance, formations cease; and so on.
Canonical Example 典籍例句
Imasmiṃ sati idaṃ hoti; imassuppādā idaṃ uppajjati. Imasmiṃ asati idaṃ na hoti; imassa nirodhā idaṃ nirujjhati.
When this exists, that comes to be. With the arising of this, that arises. When this doesn't exist, that doesn't come to be. With the cessation of this, that ceases.
Source: SN 12.21
At a Glance
- Pali
- Paṭicca-samuppāda
- IAST
- Pratītyasamutpāda
- Devanagari
- पटिच्चसमुप्पाद
- Chinese
- 緣起
- Difficulty
- advanced
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