The 30-Part Dhamma Framework — Complete Series
A concise, practice-oriented guide to Paṭiccasamuppāda (Dependent Origination). Read Part 1 first; use this page as your table of contents, reading plan, and glossary reference.
How to use this series
- Start with Part 1 — it frames the entire path.
- Read sequentially for conceptual clarity (Parts 1–10), then the practical sections (11–20), and finish with deep integration (21–30).
- Each Part includes: Intro → Core explanation → Examples → Short summary → Further reading.
- Keep Pāli terms in italics with a short gloss on first use; do not translate or localize Pāli slugs (store translations by lang_code only).
- Translators: keep metadata (title, meta description, slug) unchanged; translate body text only and save the translated row with the same article_id and the appropriate lang_code.
Quick start
- Part 1 — Dependent Origination
- Part 6 — Citta, Perception, and Fabrication
- Part 20 — Nirodha in Practice
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Reading notes for translators
- Preserve Pāli terms in italics and add a brief gloss in parentheses on first occurrence: e.g. saṅkhāra — "fabrications".
- Do not localize the slugs. Import translated files with the same slug in the DB but with the corresponding lang_code (article_translations.lang_code).
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Full series (click to open)
- Part 1 — Dependent Origination: The Frame of the Entire Path
- Part 2 — What Actually Circulates in Saṃsāra (Nāma)
- Part 3 — How the Present Arises from the Past
- Part 4 — What Dependent Origination Really Explains
- Part 5 — The Three Levels of Dependent Origination
- Part 6 — Why Ignorance Comes First/a>
- Part 7 — Mental Fabrication: The First Movement of Identity
- Part 8 — Consciousness: The Light That Follows the Push”
- Part 9 — Mind-and-Body: The Appearance of a World and a Self
- Part 10 — Contact: When Self Collides with the World
- Part 11 — Feeling: The Birthplace of Desire
- Part 12 — Craving: The Fire That Cannot Satisfy Itself
- Part 13 — Clinging: Freezing Craving into Identity
- Part 14 — Becoming: When Identity Demands a Future
- Part 15 — Birth: The Emergence of “I Am”
- Part 16 — Aging-and-Death: The Fragility of the Constructed Self
- Part 17 — Tracing the Chain Backward: Where Can Freedom Begin?
- Part 18 — Feeling Without Fuel
- Part 19 — The End of Craving: When Fire Finds No More Fuel
- Part 20 — The Fall of Clinging: Identity Without Defense
- Part 21 — The End of Becoming: When the Future Closes
- Part 22 — The End of “Birth”: No Emergence of “I Am”
- Part 23 — The End of Aging-and-Death: Nothing Left to Lose
- Part 24 — Cessation of the Entire Chain: The Vision of Nibbāna
- Part 25 — Unbinding: The End of Fuel and Fire
- Part 26 — The End of Ignorance: Seeing Dependent Origination Directly
- Part 27 — The Whole Path as Dependent Origination
- Part 28 — The Seamless Circle: Arising and Cessation as One Vision
- Part 29 — Confidence in the Dhamma: Doubt Ends When the Path Is Seen
- Part 30 — Freedom: Living Without the Chain