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see also in The Light of Wisdom, Vol.1, pg.265-6; (ISBN 9627341371) The Traditions of the Two Chariots

These are the systems of (1) Nagarjuna, and (2) Asanga;

According to the system of Nagarjuna, the Chariot of the Profound View, [the precepts are to refrain from the following]:

to steel the funds of the Three Jewels;
to commit the act of forsaking the Dharma;
to punish or cause to lose the precepts and so forth, people who possess or have lapsed from the trainings;
to commit the five acts with immediate result;
to violate the five definitive precepts for a king, such as keeping wrong views and so forth;
to violate the five definitive precepts for a minister, such as destroying a village, valley, city, district, or country;
to give premature teachings on emptiness to people who have not trained in Mahayana;
to aspire toward the shravakas of the Hinayana after reached the Mahayana;
to train in the Mahayana after forsaking the Individual Liberation;
to disparage the Hinayana;
to praise oneself and disparage others;
to be highly hypocritical for the sake of honor and gain;
to let a monk receive punishment and be humiliated;
to harm others by bribing a king or a minister in order to punish them;
to give the food of a renunciant meditator to a reciter of scriptures and thus causing obstacles for the cultivation of shamatha. The eighty subsidiary infractions are to forsake the happiness of another being and so forth.

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-[[bsgom lung]] - general name of a category of Ch'an texts in Tibetan [JV]
+see also in [[The Light of Wisdom]], Vol.1, pg.265-6; (ISBN 9627341371)
+[[The Traditions of the Two Chariots]]
-[[bsam gtan]] - dhyana, meditation, deep meditative absorption, absorptions, concentration, meditative (processes, concentration, state), SA [[skye ba'i bsam gtan]], [[rdzogs byed bsam gtan]], [['phen byed bsam gtan]], general name of a category of Ch'an texts in Tibetan, level of concentration, meditative equipoise, meditative stability, meditation practice, mental stability [JV]
+These are the systems of (1) [[Nagarjuna]], and (2) [[Asanga]];
-[[bsam gtan gyi mkhan po]] - a teacher of Ch'an, a Ch'an master [RY]
+According to the system of Nagarjuna, the Chariot of the Profound View, [the precepts are to refrain from the following]:
+*to steel the funds of the Three Jewels;
+*to commit the act of forsaking the Dharma;
+*to punish or cause to lose the precepts and so forth, people who possess or have lapsed from the trainings;
+*to commit the five acts with immediate result;
+*to violate the five definitive precepts for a king, such as keeping wrong views and so forth;
+*to violate the five definitive precepts for a minister, such as destroying a village, valley, city, district, or country;
+*to give premature teachings on emptiness to people who have not trained in Mahayana;
+*to aspire toward the shravakas of the Hinayana after reached the Mahayana;
+*to train in the Mahayana after forsaking the Individual Liberation;
+*to disparage the Hinayana;
+*to praise oneself and disparage others;
+*to be highly hypocritical for the sake of honor and gain;
+*to let a monk receive punishment and be humiliated;
+*to harm others by bribing a king or a minister in order to punish them;
+*to give the food of a renunciant meditator to a reciter of scriptures and thus causing obstacles for the cultivation of shamatha.  The eighty subsidiary infractions are to forsake the happiness of another being and so forth.
-The Chinese form for 'Zen'.  [RWB]
+[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]]
-*Please expand
-[[Category: Key Terms]]

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