Toh 211
The Sūtra “Teaching the Fundamental Exposition and Detailed Analysis of Dependent Arising”
རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་དང་པོ་དང་རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ།
Pratītyasamutpādādivibhaṅganirdeśanāmasūtra
rten cing ’brel bar ’byung ba dang po dang rnam par dbye ba bstan pa zhes bya ba’i mdo
Translator: Translated by Annie Bien under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha.
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Summary
In the Jeta’s Grove outside Śrāvastī, monks have gathered to listen to the Buddha as he presents the foundational doctrine of dependent arising. The Buddha first gives the definition of dependent arising and then teaches the twelve factors that form the causal chain of existence in saṃsāra as well as the defining characteristics of these twelve factors.