Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

I am following Kyabje Dagpo Rinpoche's webcast from Malaysia on the Twelve Links. Participants were asked today to memorize the list of the twelve before we go on to a more detailed explanation tomorrow. Here goes. This list is basically copied from the wiki article with minor additions such as the Tibetan font for the terms instead of just the wylie and phonetics. For me memorizing is helped by learning the Sanskrit terms as well. 

Avidyā (Sanskrit); Tib. ma.rig.pa མ་རིག་པ, Eng. “ignorance” or "unawareness"
Saskāra (Sanskrit); Tib. du.byed དུ་བྱེད་, Eng. “(mental or karmic) formations”
Vijñāna (Sanskrit); Tib. rnam.par.shes.pa རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ, Eng. “consciousness”
Nāmarūpa (Sanskrit and Pāli); Tib. ming.gzugs མིང་གཟུགས་, Eng. “name and form”
aāyatana (Sanskrit); Tib. skye.mched སྐྱེ་མཆེད་, Eng. “six sense gates”
Sparśa (Sanskrit); Tib. reg.pa རེག་པ་, Eng. “contact”
Vedanā (Sanskrit and Pāli); Tib. tshor.ba ཚོར་བ་, Eng. “feeling” or “sensation”
Tṛṣṇā (Sanskrit); Tib. sred.pa སྲེད་པ་ sred.pa, Eng. “craving” or “desire” or “thirst”
Upādāna (Sanskrit and Pāli); Tib. len.pa ལེན་པ་, Eng. “attachment” or “grasping”
Bhava (Sanskrit and Pāli); Tib. srid.pa སྲིད་པ་, Eng. “existence”
Jāti (Sanskrit and Pāli); Tib. skyed.ba སྐྱེ་བ་, Eng. “life”
Jarā-maraa (Sanskrit and Pāli); Tib. rgas.shi རྒ་ཤི་, Eng. “aging (old age), decay, dying”