Pratītyasamutpāda

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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.

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

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.