The History of Buddhist Thought c13.17
The History of Buddhist Thought c13.17
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c13.17
In the stages here given, from grasping to old age and death, we have the last four links of the Chain, but nothing needs to be added to make them intelligible in this passage, nor does their causal connection need explaining. The sequences are of every-day experience. It is the same in the *Sutta of grasping*,¹ where the sequence starts with craving (*taṇhā*):