pratītyasamutpāda

English

Alternative forms

• paticcasamuppāda (In Pali, the lingua franca of the Theravada tradition)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद (pratītyasamutpāda, “dependent origination”), from प्रतीत्य (pratītya, “dependence”) +‎ समुत्पाद (samutpāda, “arising”).

Noun

pratītyasamutpāda (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Mahayana Buddhism) The principle that everything is interdependent, that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions.
2. (chiefly Theravada Buddhism) The Twelve Nidānas.

Translations

Translations

• Burmese: ပဋိစ္စသမုပ္ပါဒ် (my) (pa.ticca.sa.muppad)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 緣起 / 缘起 (jyun⁴ hei²)

  Hokkien: 緣起 / 缘起 (iân-khí)

  Mandarin: 緣起 / 缘起 (zh) (yuánqǐ)

• French: coproduction conditionnée
• Japanese: 縁起 (ja) (えんぎ, engi)
• Korean: 연기(緣起) (ko) (yeon'gi)
• Pali: paṭiccasamuppāda
• Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद (sa) (pratītyasamutpāda)
• Sinhalese: පටිච්චසමුප්පාද (paṭiccasamuppāda)
• Thai: ปฏิจจสมุปบาท (bpà-dtìt-jà-sà-mùp-bàat)
• Tibetan: རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ (rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba)

Further reading

• pratītyasamutpāda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia