causes and conditions; causal conditions Cooment: Causal conditions are one of the four kinds of conditions (rkyen, pratyaya).
1) causes and conditions, cause / reason [primary and secondary] and condition. 2) Abbr. of {rgyu'i rkyen} 3) [informal] circumstances
{dge slong ma utpal mdog gi rgyu rkyen zhus pa} questioned the Buddha about the circumstances surrounding the nun Utpalavarna