Key Term |
pratītyasamutpāda |
In Tibetan Script |
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་; རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ |
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration |
rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba; rten 'brel |
Devanagari Sanskrit Script |
प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद |
Tibetan Phonetic Rendering |
tenching drelwar jungwa |
Chinese Script |
緣起 |
Chinese Pinyin |
yuánqǐ |
Japanese Transliteration |
engi |
English Standard |
dependent origination |
Richard Barron's English Term |
interdependence; occurring in/ coming into being through interdependent connection |
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term |
dependent-arising |
Dan Martin's English Term |
Emerging through containment-connection. |
Ives Waldo's English Term |
Interdependent origination |
Term Type |
Noun |
Source Language |
Sanskrit |
Basic Meaning |
The notion that all phenomena arise in dependence on causes and conditions. |
Has the Sense of |
In Madhyamaka thought it is used to describe the relative level of the truth of phenomena. Since they arise interdependently at this level, they are ultimately empty of inherent existence. |
Definitions |
Rangjung Yeshe's English Term |
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. |