ལམ་འཕགས་པའི་བདེན་པ་སྟེ། དེ་དག་ནི་འཕགས་པའི་བདེན་པ་བཞི་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །དེ་ལ་རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བའི་ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་གཉིས་གང་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟ་སྟེ། མ་རིག་པའི་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་འདུ་བྱེད་རྣམས། འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་རྐྱེན་གྱིས་རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ།
“If you ask what are the ‘twelve links of dependent origination,’ they comprise (1) fundamental ignorance, contingent on which (2) formative predispositions arise; (3) consciousness, which arises contingent on formative predispositions; (4) name and form, which arise contingent on consciousness; (5) the six sense fields, which arise contingent on name and form; (6) sensory contact, which arises contingent on the six sense fields; (7) sensation, which arises contingent on sensory contact; (8) craving, which arises contingent on sensation; (9) grasping, which arises contingent on craving; (10) the rebirth process, which arises contingent on grasping; (11) actual birth, which arises contingent on the rebirth process; and (12) aging and death, along with sorrow, lamentation, suffering, mental discomfort, and agitation, which all arise contingent on actual birth.
Emptiness, Sensory Perception, Training