Kurukulla Center

Date: 

Wed, November 06, 2024

Time: 

7:00 - 9:00 PM 

Event: 

The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination with Geshe Tenley

Geshe Tenley will lead us in a brief meditation before discussion of the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination. As we have now reached the section in Letter to a Friend where the Twelve Links are discussed, Geshe Tenley will teach on each of the twelve links as an expanded teaching.

As described by Ven. Tenzin Gache in an article for the FPMT, "Generally speaking, Buddhist texts that speak of “dependent origination” mean one of three distinct things: 1) dependence upon causes and conditions, 2) dependence on parts, and 3) dependence on a labeling consciousness. The second connotation is central to the philosophy of the Svatantrika-Madhyamaka School, and the third is unique to the Prasangika-Madhyamaka School. Thus, the “distinctively Buddhist” view—the one shared by all Buddhists historically and worldwide—is related to the first connotation, dependence on causes and conditions. This kind of dependence again has two divisions: a) outer cause and effect, and b) inner cause and effect. Outer cause and effect—the arising of smoke from fire, sprouts from seeds—is certainly not a unique Buddhist tenet, so it is inner cause and effect that is so central to Buddhism. Inner cause and effect, or psychological/karmic cause and effect, is the manner in which our present thoughts and actions create our future experience—that is, the twelve links of dependent origination."

1. Ignorance
2. Volitional formations
3. Consciousness
4. Name and form
5. Six Sense Spheres
6. Contact
7. Feeling
8. Craving
9. Grasping
10. Existence
11. Birth
12. Aging and death

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