Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

Kenneth Leong
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…

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Kenneth Leong

Author, Zen teacher, scientific mystic, professor, photographer, philosopher, social commentator, socially engaged human