The Sky of the Suttas · Sky 04

The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

SN 12.2, Analysis, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato

Mapped by similarity in the English wording. Each faint dot is a sutta, placed by how alike its English wording is.

In the sutta's own order

1
Ignorance
“Ignorance is a requirement for choices.”
2
Choices
“Choices are a requirement for consciousness.”
3
Consciousness
“Consciousness is a requirement for name and form.”
4
Name and form
“Name and form are requirements for the six sense fields.”
5
The six sense fields
“The six sense fields are requirements for contact.”
6
Contact
“Contact is a requirement for feeling.”
7
Feeling
“Feeling is a requirement for craving.”
8
Craving
“Craving is a requirement for grasping.”
9
Grasping
“Grasping is a requirement for continued existence.”
10
Continued existence
“Continued existence is a requirement for rebirth.”
11
Rebirth
“Rebirth is a requirement for old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress to come to be.”
12
Old age and death
“That is how this entire mass of suffering originates.”
(the chain's conclusion, not a sentence about this link)

From sn12.2:2.2–2.13, Bhikkhu Sujato's translation. Read the whole sutta

Mapped by similarity in the English wording.
Translations with more similar wording tend to appear nearer.
The faint stars are the suttas of the four main collections (DN, MN, SN, AN), one each. The twelve gold stars are the twelve definitions of the links, placed on the same map by the same measure of wording.
A map of the suttas' wording, not of the Dhamma.

A lesson on the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination. Where it draws on a passage, it cites it so you can read it yourself.