🔗 Dependent Origination

Dependent Origination (Pratityasamutpada)

The fundamental Buddhist doctrine that all phenomena arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions. Nothing exists independently or permanently. The twelve links explain how suffering and rebirth arise.

🔗 Related Across the Mythos

Archetype
🔗 COSMIC MECHANISM / CHAIN OF CAUSATION

Dependent Origination reveals the fundamental mechanism of existence - how suffering and rebirth perpetuate through an impersonal chain of causes and conditions.

See parallels: Chain of Being, Cosmic Law, Karma →
Cross-Cultural Parallels
🕉️ Hindu Karma → Cause and effect 🏛️ Greek Moira → Cosmic necessity
Within Buddhist Tradition
🌀 Buddhist Creation → Full explanation ⚖️ Karma → Action and result 🔄 Samsara → Cycle it perpetuates