Relationship between Paticcasamuppāda and Caturāriyasacca

Abstract

This academic article entitled “Relationship between Paticcasamuppāda and Caturāriyasacca” is of two objectives to (1) Find out the answer to the question of what the Buddha enlightened, and (2) Relationship between Paticcasamuppāda and Caturāriyasacca. Research methodology is documentary research with focuses on Tipitaka and commentaries. Results of the research are found that: in Bodhikatha of Vinayapitaka Mahavagga and Vipassisutta Nidanavagga Samyuttanikaya State the events in the night of enlightenment that the Buddha took into thorough consideration on respective Paticcasamuppāda (The Dependent Origination) while in Mahasaccakasutta, Nidānasamyutta Samyuttanikāya, the Buddha attained Pubbenivāsānussatiñāna in the first period of night, attained Catupapātañāna in the second, and attained Āsavakkhayañāna (knowledge that the outflows are extinct in the third period of night. To distinguish outflows by the process of Caturāriyasacca (The Four Noble Truths).  It is to be concluded that though different in contexts, they bare meaning in absolute truth. The Buddha speaks of Paticcasamuppāda in the light of theory of natural phenomena, while of Caturāriyasacca as the process of practice leading to get rid the outflows. It is appeared that the Buddha’s profound this concept to the first five monks Pancavaggiya in his first sermon known as Dhammacakkappavattanasutta, at the Deer Park, Varanasi, in the fulmoon night of the eighth month Asalha before the beginning of the first Buddhist retreat