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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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Samkhya ["enumerator," Kapila. = [[rig pa can]] Non-buddhist philosophical school founded by [[ser skya]]. or [[dbang phyug]] [[nag po]]. who claims all knowables are included within [[de nyid nyer lnga]]. or [[shes bya nyer lnga]] view which states 'another body another life'] [IW]
*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>
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[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]] [[Category: Vajrayana]]
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 are their opposites [RY]
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]][[Category: Sutra]] [[Category: Vajrayana]] [[Category: Tantra]][[Category: Teachings]]
 

Latest revision as of 22:06, 4 February 2006

Samkhya ["enumerator," Kapila. = rig pa can Non-buddhist philosophical school founded by ser skya. or dbang phyug nag po. who claims all knowables are included within de nyid nyer lnga. or shes bya nyer lnga view which states 'another body another life'] [IW]