Questions tagged [pratityasamutpada]
Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit:प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद; Pali: पटिच्चसमुप्पाद paṭiccasamuppāda) is commonly translated as dependent origination or dependent arising. A central concept in the Buddhist tradition that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions. The term is also used to refer to a specific application of this general principle — namely the twelve links of dependent origination.
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How does Buddhist pratītyasamutpāda respond to the objection of infinite regress?
In many Buddhist explanations, pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination) states that all phenomena arise dependent on causes and conditions. However, a common philosophical objection is that if every ...
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Is it bad to reflect on powerlessness?
Dependent origination is interpreted by users of this platform to mean that craving and grasping can give rise to a sense of self.
It's also advised on this platform to reflect on not-self of various ...
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Why does ignorance (avijjā) appear as the first link in the chain of dependent origination?
In the teaching of dependent origination, ignorance is presented as the initial condition from which the entire cycle of birth, suffering, and death unfolds. This raises a subtle but profound question:...
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MN 38: what thing wanders in samsara?
In MN 38, a monk named Sati The Fisherman's Son has some wrong views about 'samsara', as follows:
“tathāhaṁ bhagavatā dhammaṁ desitaṁ ājānāmi yathā tadevidaṁ viññāṇaṁ
sandhāvati saṁsarati anaññan”ti.
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Why no inclusion of anusaya/ asava in dependent origination?
Is there a compelling reason, those that draw diagrams for visualization of pratityasamutpada (dependent origination), don't want to include anusaya/asava, obviously not to misrepresent Dhamma? ...
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What is the nature of emptiness? Is absolute realism valid? [closed]
If I am not mistaken, Tenzen Gyatzo HHDL is translated by Tupten Jinpa in quoting ‘another Amado Master’ as stating “Emptiness does not mean the absence of functionality”.
Meaning, that although the ...
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Why does attachment replace craving?
In the book The Meaning of Life from a Buddhist Perspective links eight, nine, ten of dependent origination, pratityasamutpada, are mentioned as attachment, grasping, existence. I am accustomed to ...
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What is the relationship of namarupa and appearance?
i read this on a website:
"...Nama is the appearance of Rupa, 'what it looks like' and not 'how it is',.."
is it correctly said?
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Why is Dependent Arising (Paṭiccasamuppāda) not included in Satipatthana Sutta?
I ask a similar question here, but why is it that dependent origination is not part of the Satipathanasutta? There are a few references to the origin of the body in section 1 (considering the body) ...
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Deep meaning of Phassa in the Mahānidāna Sutta?
How would one explain when Buddha said in Mahānidāna Sutta, that "rūpakāye adhivacanasamphasso" and "nāmakāye paṭighasamphasso".
The meaning of this?
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What is first? Vedanā (feeling) or saññā (perception)?
Do we feel because we perceive? Or do we perceive because we feel?
As per mahā-vedallasutta(MN43)
Yaṁ vedeti taṁ sañjānāti, yaṁ sañjānāti taṁ vijānāti.
so vedanā -> sañjānāti -> vijānāti
But ...
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Dependent Origination and "vast emptiness"
Can emptiness due to dependent origination be logically connected to the "vast emptiness"
of Bodhidharma and Huineng?
A possible connection is that "vast emptiness" of space is the ...
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How exactly is consciousness created out of the formations, from ignorance, in the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination?
I am reading into and thinking about https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Twelve_links_of_dependent_origination and the first 3 in particular, which basically is a derivation of consciousness ...
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How does the doctrine of pratītyasamutpāda interact with Dhammapala's interpretation of nibbana?
The doctrine of pratītyasamutpāda 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&...
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Is there a circular reasoning in origin of consciousness?
Dependent Origination says, given the consciousness, name and form arises.
But in SN12.65 it says name-form is condition for consciousness:
When consciousness exists there are name and form. ...
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