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- noun The principle that everything is
interdependent , that all things arise in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions. - noun The Twelve Nidānas.
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From the Sanskrit प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद (pratītyasamutpāda, "dependent origination"), from (pratītya, "dependence") + (samutpāda, "arising").
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