[Buddha-l] Dependent arising variants [was: Where does authority for "true" Buddhism come from ?]

[Stefan Detrez]

2006/1/31, Stephen Hodge <s.hodge at padmacholing.freeserve.co.uk>:
>
> Vicente Gonzalez wrote:


(snip)

> 12 nidanas doesn't have a beginning or an end.
> This seems to be a later interpretation based on a particular
> understanding
> of the 12 nidanas.  The two processes I mention are repetitive, but not
> necessarily circular.


Tilmann Vetter observes that the development of paticca samupada as a set of
12 nidanas must have been a later addition, as there are few places in the
Canon where the Buddha treats them as a whole. See 'The Khandha Passages in
the Vinayapitaka and the four main Nikāyas', 2000.

Stefan
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