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Independent Origination
Independent Origination


 
Tibetan: rten 'brel
Sanskrit: pratityasamutpada


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The doctrine that nothing exists independently, but only comes into existence dependent on previous causes and conditions. There are twelve successive phases of this process, which begins with ignorance and ends with old age and death. See also twelve links.

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