Pratītyasamutpādahṛdayakārikā/Full text
Pratītyasamutpādahṛdayakārikā. (T. Rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba'i snying po'i tshig le'ur byas pa; C. Shi'er yinyuan lun; J. Jūniinnenrǒn; K. Sibi inyön non. In Sanskrit, "Verses on the Essence of Dependent Origination," a work attributed to Nāgārjuna by Bhāvaviveka. The work seeks to reconcile the two major meanings of pratītyasamutpāda: that of a twelvefold sequence of cause and effect and a more general sense of phenomena arising in dependence on causes, which he sets forth in his Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Nāgārjuna qualifies the twelve links in the chain of causation under three headings, with ignorance (avidyā), attachment (tṛṣṇā), and grasping (upādāna) classified as afflictions (kleśa); predispositions (saṃskāra) and existence (bhava) as action (karman); and the remaining seven as forms of suffering (duhkha). Those five that are classified as kleśa and karman are also causes; the remaining seven are effects. The "essence" of pratītyasamutpāda in the title is the lack of self in both the person (pudgala) and the aggregates (skandha). (Source: "Pratītyasamutpādahṛdayakārikā." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 670-71. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
| Reference | Nāgārjuna (slob dpon 'phags pa klu sgrub). pratītyasamutpādahṛdayakārikā [प्रतीत्यसमुत्पादहृदयकारिका]. rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba'i snying po'i tshig le'ur byas pa [རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་སྙིང་པོའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ]. [Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3181 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3181&typ=2. |
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