Dependent Origination
How does it relate to materialistic determinism?
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Buddhist concept of dependent origination, pratītyasamutpadā in Sanskrit. According to the doctrine of dependent origination, there is a specific, 12-step process of interlinked causes that lead to rebirth, suffering, and ignorance, but in the broadest sense, is the Buddhist doctrine of causality—“if this exists, that…
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