Pratitya-samutpada(
Sanskrit); Paticca Samupada(
Pali)
A description of the
fabrication and maintenance of usual mind or conditional existence originated by Sakyamuni
Buddha as a twelvefold chain of events:
basic
ignorance (avidya), habitual patterning (samskara),
consciousness (vijnana),
mind and
body (namarupa), sense bases (sadayatana) contact (sparsha), reactivity (vedana), craving (trishna), attachment (upadana), becoming (bhava),
birth (jati), aging and decay (jaramarana)