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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]
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 ...
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 ...
Ten Precepts may refer to: Ten precepts in Buddhism, observed by samaneras and numerous female monastic communities; Ten Precepts (Taoism)
In Buddhism, the Eight Precepts (Sanskrit: aṣṭāṇga-śīla or aṣṭā-sīla, Pali: aṭṭhaṅga-sīla or aṭṭha-sīla) is a list of moral precepts that are observed by Nuns, or Upāsakas and Upasikās (lay Buddhists) on Uposatha (observance days) and special occasions.
In other cultures and Buddhist traditions (particularly Northeast Asia, and those in the West that derive from these lineages), monks take different sets of vows and follow different customary rules. The Ten Precepts upheld by sāmaṇeras are: Refrain from killing or harming living things. Refrain from stealing.
The seventh precept is sometimes also interpreted to mean not wearing colorful clothes, which has led to a tradition for people to wear plain white when observing the eight precepts. [27] [31] This does not necessarily mean, however, that a Buddhist devotee dressed in white is observing the eight precepts all the time. [32]
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.