Prāṇatighātād virati
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prāṇatighātād virati (T.srog gcod pa spong ba སྲོག་གཅོད་པ་སྤོང་བ་; C. li shasheng 離殺生).[1] Abandoning the act of killing (prāṇātipāta). Refraining from taking the life of living creatures.
Refraining from taking life (prāṇatighātād virati) is:
- the first of the ten wholesome courses of action (kuśalakarmapatha )[2][3]
- the first of the five precepts[3]
- the first of the eight precepts[3]
- the first of the ten precepts for novice monastics
Notes
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. List of lists, "Eight precepts"
- ↑
dge ba bcu, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 སྲོག་གཅོད་པ་སྤོང་བ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
