Ch'an

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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