English

Alternative forms

• paticcasamuppāda (Theravada Buddhist sense)

Noun

pratītyasamutpāda ‎(uncountable)

1. (chiefly Mahayana Buddhism) The principle that everything is interdependent, that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions.
2. (chiefly Theravada Buddhism) The Twelve Nidānas.