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Dependent designation (from
Madhyamika Buddhism
.
The term was coined (or appeared to be coined) by
Candrakirti
.
Whatever is dependently co-arisen
That is explained to be emptiness.
That, being a dependent designation,
Is itself the middle way.
— Nagarjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā 24:18
Dependent designation is one of the 'three dependencies' asserted by the Madhyamikas, the others being
sunyata, the absence of inherent existence, which is connected to anatta (no-self), the third of the three marks of existence
.
According to the 14th Dalai Lama,
Phenomena are merely imputed by terms and conceptuality in dependence upon their basis of imputation.[1]
References
- ^ Dalai Lama (1992). The Meaning of Life, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. Wisdom. p. 36
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