The Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta is a discourse from the Samyutta Nikaya, specifically SN 12.2.
Its title means “Analysis of Dependent Origination” or “Analysis of Dependent Co-Arising.”
The Buddha explains the chain by which suffering arises:
“From ignorance as condition, formations arise.
From formations as condition, consciousness arises…
…From birth as condition come aging and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair.”
And then the reverse:
“With the fading away and cessation of ignorance, formations cease…
…Thus this whole mass of suffering ceases.”
The sutta systematically defines each of the twelve links:
- Ignorance (avijjā)
- Formations (saṅkhāra)
- Consciousness (viññāṇa)
- Name-and-form (nāma-rūpa)
- Six sense bases
- Contact
- Feeling
- Craving
- Clinging
- Becoming
- Birth
- Aging-and-death
One of its central insights is:
“When this exists, that comes to be;
with the arising of this, that arises.
When this ceases, that ceases.”
It is not merely a theory about rebirth; it is also a direct description of how suffering is created moment by moment through ignorance and craving.
A readable English translation:
Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta (Thanissaro Bhikkhu translation)
Audio recitation:
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