Philosophical concept

Dependent arising

Dependent arising describes phenomena as emerging through causes and conditions rather than from an isolated essence.

Works
4
Passages
2,006
Thinkers
1
Traditions
1

Understand uses of the concept

Dependent arising describes phenomena as emerging through causes and conditions rather than from an isolated essence.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,006 passages across 4 works, including Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses, Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses, Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: paṭiccasamuppāda, dependent arising, conditioned origination, coproduction conditionnée

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 34 passages
  2. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 152 passages
  3. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,819 passages
  4. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages