omen;  sign of luck;  origin;  history;  dependent arising;  doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing
 of bad omen;  ill augur;  boding evil;  bad fortune
 ominous;  ill-omened;  inauspicious;  unlucky;  sinister
 of good omen;  auspicious;  lucky;  auguring well (for);  boding well (for)
 of good omen;  auspicious;  lucky;  auguring well (for);  boding well (for)
 to be superstitious;  to believe in omens
 change of fortune;  trying to change one's luck
 Buddhist theory of the twelve-fold chain of causation, interdependent origination and co-dependent arising (San: pratītya-samutpāda);  twelve causal links