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[[byang sdom]] - bodhisattva precepts. According to the system of [[Nagarjuna]], the ''Chariot of the Profound View'', the precepts are to refrain from the following:
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*to steal the funds of the [[Three Jewels]];
*to commit the act of forsaking the [[Dharma]];
*to punish or cause to lose the precepts etc. people who possess or have lapsed from the trainings;
*to commit the five acts with immediate result;
*to violate the five definite 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, a valley, a city, a district, or a country;
*to give premature teachings on [[emptiness]] to people who haven't trained in the [[Mahayana]];
*to aspire towards the [[shravakas]] of the [[Hinayana]] after having 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.
 
According to the system of [[Asanga]], the ''Chariot of the Vast Conduct'', the precepts for the ''bodhichitta of aspiration'' are as follows:
*to never forsake sentient beings,
*to remember the benefits of bodhichitta,
*to gather the accumulations,
*to exert oneself in training in bodhichitta, as well as
*to adopt and avoid the [[eight black and white deeds]].
 
The four precepts for the ''bodhichitta of application'' are ('''to avoid''' the following):<br>
1) out of desire, to have exceeding attachment to honor and gain and to praise oneself and disparage others,<br>
2) out of stinginess, to refrain from giving material things, Dharma teachings and wealth to others,<br>
3) out of anger, to harm others and be unforgiving when offered an apology,<br>
4) out of stupidity, to pretend that indolence is [[Dharma]] and to teach that to others.
 
The 46 minor infractions are to refrain from making offerings to the [[Three Jewels]] and so forth.
 
The four black deeds are:
*to deceive a venerable person,
*to cause someone to regret what is not regrettable,
*to disparage a sublime person, and
*to deceive sentient beings.
 
The four white deeds are their opposites [RY]
 
 
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