Key Terms/pratītyasamutpāda

प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद pratītyasamutpāda

dependent origination

རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་,རྟེན་འབྲེལ་

rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba,rten 'brel

緣起

yuánqǐ

Sanskrit - Noun

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Basic Meaning

The notion that all phenomena arise in dependence on causes and conditions.

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In Madhyamaka thought it is used to describe the relative level of the truth. Since phenomena come into being interdependently at this level, they are therefore empty of inherent existence at the ultimate level.

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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Usage example

apratītya samutpanno dharmaḥ kaścin na vidyate
yasmāt tasmād aśūnyo hi dharmaḥ kaścin na vidyate

གང་ཕྱིར་རྟེན་འབྱུང་མ་ཡིན་པའི།
།ཆོས་འགའ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ།

།དེ་ཕྱིར་སྟོང་པ་མ་ཡིན་པའི།
།ཆོས་འགའ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ།

Nāgārjuna. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, XXIV.19

In other languages

Tibetan

རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་, རྟེན་འབྲེལ་

rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba, rten 'brel

tenching drelwar jungwa, ten drel

Sanskrit

प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद

pratītyasamutpāda

Chinese

緣起

yuánqǐ

Japanese

engi

How translators render it

dependent originationBuddha-nature Standard, Karl Brunnhölzl, Gyurme Dorje

interdependent originationRichard Barron, Ives Waldo

interdependenceRichard Barron

occurring in/ coming into being through interdependent connectionRichard Barron

dependent-arisingJeffrey Hopkins

Emerging through containment-connection.Dan Martin

In the dictionaries

Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

dependent origination. The natural law that all phenomena arise 'dependent upon' their own causes 'in connection with' their individual conditions. The fact that no phenomena appear without a cause and none are made by an uncaused creator. Everything arises exclusively due to and dependent upon the coincidence of causes and conditions without which they cannot possibly appear.

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Noun

Source language

Sanskrit

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pratītyasamutpāda