The significance of the Buddhist ethical precepts

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  • Created by: gemshort
  • Created on: 21-05-18 19:43

The Buddhist pancasila serve to encourage ethical responsibility

  • The precepts are guidelines; they are not absolute
  • It is entirely a personal decision whether you want to follow the guidelines
  • The precepts are interpreted and applied in different ways

Peter Harvey's interpretations

  • Within the first precept, Harvey includes the idea of any kind of injury as 'clearly against the spirit of the precept'
  • 'Fraud, forgery and falsely denying that one is in debt' are embraced by the second precept
  • 'The third precept relates primarily to the avoidance of causing suffering by one's sexual behaviour'
  • 'Any form of lying, deception or exaggeration... is precluded by

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