Pratītyasamutpāda

Pratītyasamutpāda is the Buddhist principle that phenomena arise and cease through dependence on causes and conditions, rather than existing independently.

Twelve Nidānas: A sequence of twelve conditions describing the arising and cessation of suffering in Buddhist teachings. This traditional formulation maps dependent arising as a linked process.
Causality: Causality is the relation by which events or states bring about or condition other events or states. Dependent arising is a Buddhist account of conditioned causation.
Pali Canon: The Pali Canon is the collection of scriptures preserved by the Theravāda Buddhist tradition. Its discourses contain early accounts of dependent arising and the twelve links.
Svabhāva: Svabhāva is the idea that something possesses an intrinsic nature or existence independent of conditions. Dependent arising challenges the claim that phenomena exist through their own intrinsic nature.
Dependent origination in Tibetan Buddhism: Tibetan Buddhist teachings present dependent origination through causal analysis and symbolic representations such as the Wheel of Life. The Wheel of Life makes the twelve links a visual account of cyclic existence.
Ignorance (Buddhism): In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is a fundamental misapprehension of reality, especially impermanence and not-self. It begins the twelve-link sequence in the standard formulation.
Impermanence: Impermanence is the Buddhist teaching that conditioned phenomena change and pass away. What depends on conditions cannot remain unchanged when those conditions shift.
Saṃyutta Nikāya: The Saṃyutta Nikāya is a collection of thematically grouped discourses in the Pali Canon. Its Nidāna-saṃyutta gathers teachings on conditionality and dependent arising.
Substance theory: Substance theory holds that reality includes enduring entities that bear properties and persist through change. It offers a contrasting account to phenomena constituted through changing conditions.
Saṃsāra: Saṃsāra is the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth shaped by karma and ignorance in Indian religions. Dependent conditions explain how cyclic existence continues without an enduring self.

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