Sanskrit Noun
pratītyasamutpāda
dependent origination
प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་, རྟེན་འབྲེལ་
緣起
Basic Meaning
The notion that all phenomena arise in dependence on causes and conditions.
Read It in the Scriptures
Because there are no phenomena
That are not dependently arisen,
There are no phenomena
That are not empty.~ Nāgārjuna. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Chapter 24, Verse 19.
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| Term Variations | |
|---|---|
| Key Term | pratītyasamutpāda |
| Topic Variation | pratītyasamutpāda |
| Tibetan | རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་, རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ ( tenching drelwar jungwa, ten drel) |
| Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba, rten 'brel ( tenching drelwar jungwa, ten drel) |
| Devanagari Sanskrit | प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद |
| Chinese | 緣起 |
| Chinese Pinyin | yuánqǐ |
| Japanese Transliteration | engi |
| Buddha-nature Site Standard English | dependent origination |
| Karl Brunnhölzl's English Term | dependent origination |
| Richard Barron's English Term | interdependence, occurring in/ coming into being through interdependent connection, interdependent origination |
| Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | dependent-arising |
| Dan Martin's English Term | Emerging through containment-connection. |
| Gyurme Dorje's English Term | dependent origination |
| Ives Waldo's English Term | Interdependent origination |
| Term Information | |
| Usage Example | apratītya samutpanno dharmaḥ kaścin na vidyate yasmāt tasmād aśūnyo hi dharmaḥ kaścin na vidyate གང་ཕྱིར་རྟེན་འབྱུང་མ་ཡིན་པའི། |
| Source Language | Sanskrit |
| Basic Meaning | The notion that all phenomena arise in dependence on causes and conditions. |
| Term Type | Noun |
| Definitions | |
| Wikipedia | wikipedia:Pratītyasamutpāda |
