re MDDM 35 Chain and History

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Same Destination:

The twelve links in the Chain of Dependent Causality:

1.  Dependent on Avijja (ignorance) there arises Sankhara
(volitional activities)

2. Dependent on Sankhara there arises Vinnana (consciousness).

3. Dependent on Vinnana there arises Nama-rupa (mind and matter).

4. Dependent on Nama-rupa there arises Salayatana (sixfold senses
bases).

5. Dependent on Salayatana there arises Phassa (contact).

6. Dependent on Phassa there arises Vedana (feeling).

7. Dependent on Vedana there arises Tanha (craving).

8. Dependent on Tanha there arises Upadana (grasping, clinging or
attachment).

9. Dependent on Upadana there arises Bhava (becoming).

10. Dependent on Bhava there arises Jati (birth).

11. Dependent on Jati there arises Jara, Marana, Soka, Parideva,
Dukkha, Somanassa, Upayasa (old age, death, sorrow, lamentation,
pain, grief and despair).