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Buddhism encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha. [8]Nirvana is the oldest and most common term for the end goal of the Buddhist path and the ultimate eradication of duḥkha—nature of life that innately includes "suffering", "pain", or "unsatisfactoriness". [9]
An important value in Buddhist ethics is non-harming or non-violence to all living creatures from the lowest insect to humans which is associated with the first precept of not killing. The Buddhist practice of this does not extend to the extremes exhibited by Jainism (in Buddhism, unintentional killing is not karmically bad), but from both the ...
[2] [3] Both Buddhists and non-Buddhists must avoid them at all costs. Such offenses prevent perpetrators from attaining any of the stages of enlightenment [4] and from ordaining into the Sangha. The offences are: [5] [6] [7] Killing one's mother; Killing one's father; Killing an Arahant; Wounding a Tathāgata; Creating schism in the Sangha [8]
The five precepts (Sanskrit: pañcaśīla; Pali: pañcasīla) or five rules of training (Sanskrit: pañcaśikṣapada; Pali: pañcasikkhapada) [4] [5] [note 1] is the most important system of morality for Buddhist lay people.
The prohibition on killing precept in Buddhist scriptures applies to all living beings, states Christopher Gowans, not just human beings. [73] Bhikkhu Bodhi agrees, clarifying that the more accurate rendering of the Pali canon is a prohibition on "taking life of any sentient being", which includes human beings, animals, birds, insects but ...
In this five-fold lens for viewing society, people kill in a 'killing zone' which can range from a single location to theatres of war and which is the actual place where the killing occurs; learn to kill in a 'socialisation zone', such as a military base; are educated to accept killing as necessary and valid in a 'cultural conditioning zone ...
As the 57th discourse of the fifth book of the Pali Canon's Anguttara Nikaya (AN), this discourse's abbreviated designation is AN 5.57 or AN V.57. Alternately, it may be designated as A iii 71 to signify that in the Pali Text Society 's Anguttara Nikaya's third volume, this discourse starts on page 71.
These are: (1) the presence of a living being, human or animal; (2) the knowledge that the being is a living being; (3) the intent to kill; (4) the act of killing by some means; and (5) the resulting death. [148] Some Buddhists have argued on this basis that the act of killing is complicated, and its ethicality is predicated upon intent. [149]