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རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས། | Glossary of Terms
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས།
rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba’i yan lag bcu gnyis
dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
- Term
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba’i yan lag bcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅge pratītyasamutpāde
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in cyclic existence; starting with ignorance and ending with death.
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten ’brel gyi yan lag bcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
The principle of dependent origination asserts that nothing exists independently of other factors, the reason for this being that things and events come into existence only by dependence on the aggregation of multiple causes and conditions. In general, the processes of cyclic existence, through which the external world and the sentient beings within it revolve in a continuous cycle of suffering, propelled by the propensities of past actions and their interaction with afflicted mental states, originate dependent on the sequential unfolding of twelve links, commencing from fundamental ignorance and ending with birth, aging, and death (see UT22084-031-002-155–UT22084-031-002-156). It is only through deliberate reversal of these twelve links that one can succeed in bringing the whole cycle to an end. See UT22084-031-002-2061.
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba’i yan lag bcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
- 十二因縁
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in saṃsāra; starting with ignorance and ending with death.
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba yan lag bcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in cyclic existence; starting with ignorance and ending with death.
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་ཏེ་འབྱུང་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་ཏེ་བྱུང་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten cing ’brel te ’byung ba bcu gnyis
- rten cing ’brel te byung ba bcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in cyclic existence; starting with ignorance and ending with death. Through a deliberate reversal of these twelve links that one can succeed in bringing the whole cycle to an end. The twelve links are (1) ignorance, (2) formation, (3) consciousness, (4) name-and-form, (5) six sense sources, (6) contact, (7) feeling, (8) craving, (9) grasping, (10) becoming, (11) birth, (12) aging and death.
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་པར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།
- rten cing ’brel par ’byung ba yan lag bcu gnyis pa
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in saṃsāra, starting with ignorance and ending with death.
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡན་ལག་གཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba yan lag gcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpādaḥ
- Twelve links of dependent origination
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།
- rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba yan lag bcu gnyis pa
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in saṃsāra, starting with ignorance and ending with death.
- Dependent arising with twelve parts
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་པར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས།
- rten cing ’brel par ’byung ba yan lag bcu gnyis
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
See “dependent arising.” These are the twelve causal links that perpetuate life in cyclic existence, starting with ignorance and ending with death.
- Twelve links of dependent arising
- རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ།
- rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba yan lag bcu gnyis pa
- dvādaśāṅgapratītyasamutpāda
The twelve causal links that perpetuate life in saṃsāra, starting with ignorance and ending with death.