[Buddha-l] Dependent arising variants

[Joy Vriens]

L.S. Cousins wrote:

> I don't know that I would go so far as to argue that the standard 12 
> link version was necessarily dominant from the beginning (although it 
> might have been). I do think that the Buddha (or whoever) is likely to 
> have put forward both the explanation based upon ignorance and that 
> based upon craving, just as he taught solutions to these based upon 
> insight and calm. That is because I think that these ideas existed as 
> separate traditions in pre-Buddhist teachings.


Sorry to butt in this interesting discussion. Would you like to say more 
about this? (I feel like a child again listening with red ears to the 
conversation of grown-ups and whenever I hear the word pre-Buddhist my 
attention triples). What pre-Buddhist traditions would that be? I am 
even interested in mere intuitions and speculations...

Joy