The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (80 page)

 
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(‘food’ or ‘nutrition’). In the P
li
Nik
yas
,
h
ra sums up the whole teaching of the
Buddha
in relation to the living being, including the ‘Doctrine of Dependent Origination’,
paticca-samupp
da
. The basic perception is that ‘all beings live on food’ (
sabbe satt
h
ra
hitika
,
Digha Nik
ya
iii. 211). This statement covers the whole nature of a living organism, which depends not only on material food but also psychic food, for its sustenance.