Buddhaghosa · Theology
Buddhaghosa’s exposition of <em>paticca-samuppada</em>, dependent origination - the twelve-linked chain by which suffering arises through conditions rather than through a creator, fate, or chance, and the ‘wheel of becoming’ that keeps turning until the chain is broken.
You learned that paticca-samuppada is the arising of things through conditions - the twelve-linked ‘wheel of becoming’ that turns from ignorance through craving to birth, aging, and death - and that it has no first cause or creator, so breaking a link (ignorance or craving) stops the wheel. Explain in your…
Leads to Nagarjuna.
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