Twelve Links of Dependent Origination
5 min readJan 1, 2023
Traditionally, Dependent Origination is explained using twelve causal factors/links to account for the arising (or the cessation) of suffering. It is a very important concept in Buddhism. Yet, I have never seen any discussion about it in any of Facebook’s Buddhist groups. In addition, I have not seen the twelve links discussed in any of the introduction to Buddhism books I have come across. As a modern Buddhist educator, I…