{"id":12317,"date":"2013-09-03T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T08:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12317"},"modified":"2013-09-03T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T08:54:28","slug":"what-is-dependent-origination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=12317","title":{"rendered":"What is dependent origination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was visiting some friends recently when one of them used the term &#8220;dependent origination&#8221;. I had never heard of the term and struggled to understand my friend&#8217;s attempt to explain it. It is an English translation for the Sanskrit word\u00a0<i>prat\u012btyasamutp\u0101da\u00a0<\/i>which is fundamental to Buddhist belief.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/buddhism.about.com\/od\/basicbuddhistteachings\/a\/genesis.htm\">One explanation<\/a> is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No beings or phenomena exist independently of other beings and phenomena. All beings and phenomena are caused to exist by other beings and phenomena. Further, the beings and phenomena thus caused to exist cause other beings and phenomena to exist. Things and beings perpetually arise and perpetually cease because other things and beings perpetually arise and perpetually cease. All this arising and being and ceasing go on in one vast field or nexus of beingness. And there we are.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prat\u012btyasamutp\u0101da\">Wikipedia page<\/a> is very comprehensive if rather obscure.<\/p>\n<p>Can any reader shed some light?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was visiting some friends recently when one of them used the term &#8220;dependent origination&#8221;. I had never heard of the term and struggled to understand my friend&#8217;s attempt to explain it. It is an English translation for the Sanskrit word\u00a0prat\u012btyasamutp\u0101da\u00a0which is fundamental to Buddhist belief. One explanation is as follows: &#8220;No beings or phenomena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12317"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12334,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions\/12334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}