An Explanation of the Twelve Nidānas in the Āgama Sutras

Contents

Chapter One: Saṃyuktāgama, Volume Twelve Section One: The Causes for the Arising of the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination Section 2: The World-Honored One Investigates the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination in Direct and Reverse Order Section Three: For Whom Do the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination Arise? Section Four: The Path to Liberation from the Cessation of Suffering Section 5: The Arising and Cessation of the World Section 6: The Dharma of Causes and Conditions and the Dharma of Conditionally Arisen Phenomena Section Seven: The Law of Dependent Origination Is the Permanently Abiding Dharma of the Dharma Realm Chapter Two: Saṃyukta Āgama, Volume Thirteen Section One: First Knowing the Abiding of Dharmas, Then Knowing Nirvāṇa Section Two: The Forty-Four Kinds of Wisdom and the Seventy-Seven Kinds of Wisdom Section Three: How to Realize the Forty-Four Kinds of Wisdom Section Four: The Relationship Between the Four Types of Food and the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination Chapter 3: The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination in the Dīrgha Āgama Section One: The Ninth Sutra of the Dīrgha Āgama — The Mahānidāna Upāya Sūtra Section Two: Dīrgha Āgama, Volume One (The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination) Chapter Four: The Āgama Oral Explanation of the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination Sūtra Chapter 5: Sutra on the Aggregates, Elements, and Entrances (Yin Chi Ru Jing), Part One Chapter 6: The Madhyama Āgama — Mahānidāna Sūtra (Excerpt) Chapter Seven: The Sutra Spoken by the Buddha on the Old Mother (Fo Shuo Laomu Jing) Chapter 8: The Key Link for Severing the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination Section One: The Chain of the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination and the Gates of Birth-and-Death in Forward and Reverse Order Section Two: Explanation of Terms and Concepts