The Related Discourses

3. Causation

This group of sūtras takes causation as it’s primary theme, especially the causation of one’s existence in the world and liberation from suffering. The topics encountered in this section of the Related Discourses usually revolve around dependent origination in various contexts.

The Causation group consists of 78 sūtras when abbreviated sūtra variants are counted. The material spans fascicles 12, 14, and 15 of Taisho No. 99, which have been reordered according to Yinshun’s reconstruction. Below is a list of the English translations currently available.

For a table of parallels found in other Buddhist sources, see the Dharma Pearls Wiki. Also, see the notes listed in the introduction to the Aggregates regarding conventions followed in the list below.

Below is a list of the English translations currently available.

• 1 (283). Planting a Tree
• 2 (284). A Great Tree
• 11 (293). Connected with Emptiness, Conformable to the Dharma of Conditioned Genesis (Choong)
• 14 (296). The Dharma of Arising by Causal Condition and the Dharmas Arisen by Causal Condition (Choong)
• 15 (297). The Great Discourse on the Emptiness of Dharmas (Choong)
• 17 (299). The Dharma of Conditioned Arising (Choong)
• 18 (300). Empty of the Eternalist and Annihilationist Views (Choong)
• 19 (301). Establishing Right View (Choong)
• 71 (371). The Nutriments (Pierquet)
• 74 (374). The Nutriments (Pierquet)