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. Since phenomena come into being interdependently at this level, they are therefore empty of inherent existence at the ultimate level. |
| 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. |
| sutra/śastra quote: |
Because there are no phenomena That are not dependently arisen, There are no phenomena That are not empty. |
| sutra/śastra quote source: | Nāgārjuna. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Chapter 24, Verse 19. |
| Usage Example |
apratītya samutpanno dharmaḥ kaścin na vidyate གང་ཕྱིར་རྟེན་འབྱུང་མ་ཡིན་པའི། །ཆོས་འགའ་ཡོད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པ། |