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Pratītyasamutpāda: Overview, Comparison with western philosophy & Development of the twelve nidanas

Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit: प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद, Pāli: paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key doctrine in Buddhism shared by all schools of Buddhism. It states that all conditioned dharmas (phenomena) arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that…

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Pratītyasamutpāda topic overview

The analysis highlights Overview, Comparison with western philosophy and Development of the twelve nidanas as prominent areas in the source structure around Pratītyasamutpāda.

Related topics
170
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
178
Extracted relationships
80
Concept neighborhoods
13
Bridge connections
178

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 140 topics
Comparison with western philosophy · 10 topics
Development of the twelve nidanas · 7 topics
Interpretations · 6 topics
Lists of nidanas · 3 topics
Dependent origination in early Buddhism · 2 topics
Etymology · 1 topics
Transcendental/reverse dependent origination · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Bengali
প্রতীত্যসমুৎপাদ (prôtīttôsômutpad)
Chinese
緣起 (Pinyin: yuánqǐ)
English
dependent origination, dependent arising, interdependent co-arising, conditioned arising
Indonesian
kemunculan bersebab, kemunculan bergantung, dependensi kemunculan, sebab musabab yang saling bergantung
Japanese
縁起 (Rōmaji: engi)
Khmer
បដិច្ចសមុប្បាទ (padecchak samubbat)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

Dependent origination in early Buddhism

Lists of nidanas

Development of the twelve nidanas

Transcendental/reverse dependent origination

Interpretations

Comparison with western philosophy

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Pratītyasamutpāda connects Entity context

The extracted context around Pratītyasamutpāda shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Pratītyasamutpāda → Alawwe Anōmadassi Thero Dependent, Bhikkhu Bodhi Pratītyasamutpāda, Bhikkhu Thanissaro, Bhikkhu ThanissaroSN, BuddhadasaThe Doctrine, Buddhist Law, Conditionality, Dependent Co-arising, Mahasi SayadawThe Shape, Mahā Nidāna Sutta, Origination, Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga SuttaSN, Paticcasamuppada, Practical Dependent Origination, Prayudh PayuttoPaticcasamuppada, Suffering, Than DaingA Discourse, Upanisa Sutta Another extracted example is Pratītyasamutpāda → Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Buddhism, Buddhist, Commentary, Hoffman, Phyrrhonism, Plato's Theaetetus, Pyrrhonism, Schilbrack, The, The Hellenistic, Western. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Pratītyasamutpāda

Top relations

related to External links · 18
Pratītyasamutpāda → Alawwe Anōmadassi Thero Dependent, Bhikkhu Bodhi Pratītyasamutpāda, Bhikkhu Thanissaro, Bhikkhu ThanissaroSN, BuddhadasaThe Doctrine, Buddhist Law, Conditionality, Dependent Co-arising, Mahasi SayadawThe Shape, Mahā Nidāna Sutta, Origination, Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga SuttaSN, Paticcasamuppada, Practical Dependent Origination, Prayudh PayuttoPaticcasamuppada, Suffering, Than DaingA Discourse, Upanisa Sutta
related to Comparison with western philosophy · 13
Pratītyasamutpāda → Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Buddhism, Buddhist, Commentary, Hoffman, Phyrrhonism, Plato's Theaetetus, Pyrrhonism, Schilbrack, The, The Hellenistic, Western
related to Etymology · 9
Pratītyasamutpāda → In, In Vedic, Pratītya, Samutpāda, The, The Sanskrit, Upanishads, Vedas, Vedic
Bengali · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → প্রতীত্যসমুৎপাদ (prôtīttôsômutpad)
Burmese · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → ပဋိစ္စ သမုပ္ပါဒ် .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .n…
Chinese · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → 緣起 (Pinyin: yuánqǐ)
English · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → dependent origination, dependent arising, interdependent co-arising, conditioned arising
Indonesian · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → kemunculan bersebab, kemunculan bergantung, dependensi kemunculan, sebab musabab yang saling bergantung
Japanese · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → 縁起 (Rōmaji: engi)
Khmer · 1
Pratītyasamutpāda → បដិច្ចសមុប្បាទ (padecchak samubbat)

Important terminology

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Important terminology

dependent origination also according nidanas 12 arising rebirth buddhist twelve phenomena one consciousness states principle existence early sn suffering process

Pratītyasamutpāda relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 80 structured relationships around Pratītyasamutpāda. Examples in this analysis include Pratītyasamutpāda → Bengali → প্রতীত্যসমুৎপাদ (prôtīttôsômutpad) and Pratītyasamutpāda → Burmese → ပဋိစ္စ သမုပ္ပါဒ် .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .n…. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PratītyasamutpādaBengaliপ্রতীত্যসমুৎপাদ (prôtīttôsômutpad)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaBurmeseပဋိစ္စ သမုပ္ပါဒ် .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .n…1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaChinese緣起 (Pinyin: yuánqǐ)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaEnglishdependent origination, dependent arising, interdependent co-arising, conditioned arising1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaIndonesiankemunculan bersebab, kemunculan bergantung, dependensi kemunculan, sebab musabab yang saling bergantung1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaJapanese縁起 (Rōmaji: engi)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaKhmerបដិច្ចសមុប្បាទ (padecchak samubbat)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaKorean연기 (RR: yeongi)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaPaliपटिच्चसमुप्पाद (paṭiccasamuppāda)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaSanskritप्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद (IAST: pratītyasamutpāda)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaSinhalaපටිච්චසමුප්පාද1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaTagalogPlatityasamutpada1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaThaiปฏิจจสมุปบาท (RTGS: patitcha samupabat)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaTibetanརྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་ (Wylie: rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba THL: ten-ching drelwar jungwa)1.00infobox
PratītyasamutpādaVietnameseduyên khởi (Chữ Nôm: 縁起)1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Pratītyasamutpāda bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Early, Doctrine and Origination. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • early buddhist texts
    • Early
    • Doctrine
    • Origination
    • Dependent
    • Different
    • Conditionality
    • Various
    • Lists
    • Principle
    • Nidanas
    • Conditioned
    • According
  • rebirth
    • Nidanas
    • Existence
    • Twelve
    • Suffering
    • Notes
    • Two
    • Origination
    • Death
    • Mental
    • Buddhist
    • Three
    • States
  • the first sermon given by the buddha
    • Sn
    • Buddhist
    • Early
    • Conditionality
    • Doctrine
    • Origination
    • Suffering
    • Dependent
    • States
    • Twelve
    • According
    • Dependently
  • conditionality
    • Principle
    • Early
    • Sn
    • Buddhist
    • Doctrine
    • Conditioned
    • Buddha
    • Suffering
    • According
    • Death
    • Dependently
    • Different
  • existence
    • Rebirth
    • Condition
    • Principle
    • Processes
    • Phenomena
    • Nidanas
    • Argues
    • Three
    • According
    • Twelve
    • Consciousness
    • One
  • mutual containment and interpenetration of all phenomena
    • Principle
    • Dependently
    • Lists
    • Various
    • Existence
    • According
    • Buddhist
    • Rebirth
    • States
    • Self
    • Processes
    • Also
  • three marks of existence
    • Rebirth
    • Condition
    • Two
    • Principle
    • Processes
    • Phenomena
    • Nidanas
    • Argues
    • Three
    • According
    • Twelve
    • Consciousness
  • dependent origination in early buddhism
    • Origination
    • Arising
    • Also
    • According
    • One
    • Buddhist
    • Different
    • Principle
    • Early
    • Lists
    • Nidanas
    • Process

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Pratītyasamutpāda, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Pratītyasamutpāda with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Pratītyasamutpāda — Overview · splits 38 ⟂ 141
Pratītyasamutpāda — Comparison with western philosophy · splits 168 ⟂ 11
Pratītyasamutpāda — Development of the twelve nidanas · splits 171 ⟂ 8
Pratītyasamutpāda — Interpretations · splits 172 ⟂ 7
Pratītyasamutpāda — Lists of nidanas · splits 175 ⟂ 4
Pratītyasamutpāda — Dependent origination in early Buddhism · splits 176 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Pratītyasamutpāda

Nodes179
Edges178
Triples80
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011173
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Pratītyasamutpāda to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Overview, Comparison with western philosophy & Development of the twelve nidanas, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Pratītyasamutpāda · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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