Dependent Arising

When we correctly understand emptiness (voidness), we correctly understand dependent arising; and when we correctly understand dependent arising, we correctly understand emptiness.

A look at how dependent arising eliminates the extreme of nihilism and the extreme of absolutism.

With a correct understanding of voidness and dependent arising, we will avoid the two extremes of absolutism and nihilism, and then be best able to deal with the complexities of life.

With correct understanding of voidness, we also correctly understand the different levels of dependent arising.

Tsongkhapa was a revolutionary reformer who reinterpreted and clarified many of the key Buddhist teachings, especially concerning the assertions of the Prasangika tenet system concerning voidness, the two truths, the two obscurations and cognition theory.

Nagarjuna’s text is a foundational treatise on Madhyamika philosophy consisting of 27 chapters. Chapter 26 offers an analysis of the twelve links of dependent arising.