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The Bodhisattva Precepts may be often called the "Brahma Net Precepts" (Chinese: 梵網戒; pinyin: Fànwǎng Jiè), particularly in Buddhist scholarship, although other sets of bodhisattva precepts may be found in other texts as well. These precepts are often taken by monastics in East Asian Buddhism. [1]
Padmasambhāva "Lotus-Born", also known as Guru Rinpoche, is a literary character of terma, [10] an emanation of Amitābha that is said to appear to tertöns in visionary encounters and a focus of Tibetan Buddhist practice, particularly in the Nyingma school. Sangharama (Chinese: 伽藍; pinyin: Qiélán; Vietnamese: Già Lam)
Ten Precepts may refer to: Ten precepts in Buddhism, observed by samaneras and numerous female monastic communities; Ten Precepts (Taoism)
The Noble Eightfold Path, of which the five precepts are part. Buddhist scriptures explain the five precepts as the minimal standard of Buddhist morality. [15] It is the most important system of morality in Buddhism, together with the monastic rules. [16] Śīla (Sanskrit; Pali: sīla) is used to refer to Buddhist precepts, [17] including the ...
The eight precepts are similar to the ten precepts observed by novice monks, except that the seventh and eighth precepts for the novices are combined, the ninth novice precept becomes the eighth, and the tenth novice precept (non-acceptance of gold and silver, use of money) is excluded as being impracticable for a lay person. [15]
[10] The eight precepts is a list of precepts that are observed by lay devotees on observance days and festivals. [9] They include general precepts such as refraining from killing, but also more specific ones, such as abstaining from cosmetics. [11] These precepts were probably based on pre-Buddhist sāmaṇa practices. [12]
The foundation of Buddhist ethics for laypeople is The Five Precepts which are common to all Buddhist schools. The precepts or "five moral virtues" (pañca-silani) are not commands but a set of voluntary commitments or guidelines, [23] to help one live a life in which one is happy, without worries, and able to meditate well. The precepts are ...
hearing the names of certain Buddhas or bodhisattvas, or reciting their name; maintaining Buddhist precepts, including new bodhisattva precepts; listening to, memorizing, reciting, preaching, worshiping and copying Mahāyāna sūtras, rejoicing (anumodana) in the collected meritorious actions of all previous Buddhas and other beings.