[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Śālistambasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba) › [འཕགས་པ་སཱ་ལུའི་ལྗང་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo) › [The Rice Seedling](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000) › intro.1 # འཕགས་པ་ས་ལའ་ལྗང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.1 The Rice Seedling intro.1 - **Language:** English ### [intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.1) In this sūtra, at the request of venerable Śāriputra, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya elucidates a very brief teaching on dependent arising that the Buddha had given earlier that day while gazing at a rice seedling. The text discusses outer and inner causation and its conditions, describes in detail the twelvefold cycle by which inner dependent arising gives rise to successive lives, and explains how understanding the very nature of that process can lead to freedom from it. - [Next: intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.2) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.salistamba*bo~en-84000.intro.1) · Pramāṇa