Pratītyasamutpāda
| 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. |