pratyaya means conviction, reliance, but with Buddhists especially it means 'a co-operating cause, the concurrent occasion of an event as distinguished from its proximate cause'. M.W. It is the circumstantial, conditioning, or secondary cause, in contrast with 因 hetu, the direct or fundamental cause. hetu is as the seed, pratyaya the soil, rain, sunshine, etc. To reason, conclude. To climb, lay hold of. The mind 能緣can reason, the objective is 所緣, the two in contact constitute the reasoning process. The four kinds of causes are 因緣; 次第緣; 緣緣, and 增上緣 q.v.
１．事物的相涉關係，如因緣。２．攀附的意思，如攀緣。
緣 (1) Cause. Various conditions. (Skt. kāraṇa, pratyaya, pratītya, pratyaya-hetu). (2) Indirect cause, secondary cause. Associated conditions. All things are subject to the principle of cause and effect, but there are conditions/circumstances that aid the causes that produce an effect, which are called 'indirect causes.' Connection. Opportunity, chance. (3) Relationship, basis (ārambana, ālambana). (4) Object of cognition, object of perception; environment, object. (5) To take as an object. To connect with; be connected with. The mind facing an object of the external world. To sense, perceive or cognize. With the meaning of cognition, it refers to the relation of subject to object, that is, the function of the consciousness cognizing external objects. (6) Facing the mind. (7) An abbreviation of 機縁, a term for 'sentient beings.' (8) Implement(s). Relationship, affinity, connection. (9) One of the ten such-likes taught in the Lotus Sutra. See 十如是.
Condition 緣 There is no existing phenomena that is not the effect of dependent origination. All phenomena arise dependent upon a number of casual factors called conditions.
分別緣起初勝法門經十二頁云：若與此生，作依、作持、令得生起；是其緣義。
二解分別緣起初生法門經二十一頁云：云何第四名緣行相？謂於能作餘緣引發因緣愛中，正觀行相。
三解瑜伽五卷十二頁云：建立義，是緣義。
四解如四行了集諦相中說。
五解集論三卷三頁云：云何緣、幾是緣、為何義故，觀緣耶？謂因故、等無間故、所緣故，增上故；是緣義。一切是緣。為捨執著我為因法故，觀察緣。
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