The doctrine of Pratītyasamutpāda (
Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद) or Paticcasamuppāda (
Pāli: पतिचसमुपादा;
Tibetan: rten.cing.'brel.bar.'byung.ba;
Chinese:緣起) Dependent Arising is an important part of
Buddhist metaphysics. Common to all
Schools of Buddhism, it states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect. It is variously rendered into English as "dependent origination," "conditioned genesis," "dependent co-arising," "interdependent arising," etc.
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