pratyaya

pratyaya
In Buddhism, an auxiliary, indirect cause, as distinguished from a direct cause (hetu).

A seed, for example, is the direct cause of a plant, whereas sunlight, water, and earth are the auxiliary causes. Sometimes pratyaya is used to refer to cause in general. The idea of causation is important in the Buddhist concept of the cycle of death and rebirth (see pratitya-samutpada).

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▪ Buddhist philosophy
Sanskrit“cause”Pāli  paccaya 

      in Buddhist philosophy, an auxiliary, indirect cause, as distinguished from a direct cause (hetu). A seed, for example, is a direct cause of a plant, while sunshine, water, and earth are auxiliary causes of a plant. Sometimes pratyaya means the cause in general.

      According to the 4th- or 5th-century text the Abhidharmakośa, all causes are classifiable into four types (catvāraḥ pratyayāḥ): (1) the direct cause (hetu-pratyaya); (2) the immediately preceding cause (samanantara-pratyaya), for, according to the Buddhist theory of universal momentariness (kṣaṇikatva), the disappearance of the mental activity of the first moment is regarded as the cause for the appearance of that of the second moment; (3) the object as a cause (ālambana-pratyaya), since the object present in the preceding moment becomes the cause of the mental activity for functioning; and (4) the superior cause (adhipati-pratyaya), which refers to all causes, except those stated above, that are effective to produce a thing or not to hinder the existence of it. In the latter sense, every existence can be a cause of all existences except itself.

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