Illuminating Samsara and Nirvana: The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising

A comprehensive and masterful exposition on the twelve links of dependent arising as it is understood in the four schools of Indian Buddhism.

Buddhism teaches that every phenomenon exists due to dependent arising: one event leads to another in an interconnected chain of causes and effects. At the beginning of the chain responsible for our present samsaric existence is ignorance. The Buddha described how all our current sufferings, including aging and death, can be traced back to our common f...