Original scientific paper

On Some Doctrinal Disputations in Early Buddhist Interpretations of pratītyasamutpāda (Dependent Co-arising)

Goran Kardaš ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Pratītyasamutpāda (Dependent Co-arising) is a foundational Buddhist teaching canonically announced by Buddha as that which represents his “middle position” between the two (ontological) extremes of existence and nonexistence. Nevertheless, early Buddhist philosophers barely reached a consensus about its precise doctrinal or even grammatical meaning. In this article, I provide a basic outline of these disputations based on primary sources trying to show that they, in fact, reflect their various understandings of the problem of causation and the nature of phenomena.

Keywords

causation; Madhyamaka; phenomena; dharmas; pratītyasamutpāda; Vaibhāṣika; Vasubandhu

Hrčak ID:

162957

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/162957

Publication date:

27.8.2015.

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