Precepts

Eight Precepts The Eight Precepts are for upāsakas and upāsikās who wish to practice Buddhism more strictly than through adherence to the five precepts.

Other precepts Different Buddhist traditions adhere to other lists of precepts that have some overlap with the Five Precepts.

Ten Precepts The Ten Precepts refer to the precepts or training rules for śrāmaṇeras (novice monks) and śrāmaṇerīs (novice nuns).

A consensus formed: Jonson was the first English poet to understand classical precepts with any accuracy, and he was the first to apply those precepts successfully to contemporary life.

Summa Theologica I–II, Q. 94, A. 6. However, while the primary and immediate precepts cannot be "blotted out", the secondary precepts can be.

The Buddha gave teachings on how the eight precepts are to be practiced, Anguttara Nikaya 8.43 and on the right and wrong ways of practicing the eight precepts.

The eight precepts focus both on avoiding morally bad behaviour, as do the five precepts, and on leading a more ascetic life.

Uda left behind an hortatory will or testament which offered general admonitions or precepts Compare Precepts of Tokugawa Ieyasu for his son's guidance (see excerpt at right).

As well as these Five Precepts, students have to maintain Noble Silence throughout the course, meaning no talking or any form of gesturing or other communication for nine days.

He responded, “Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.

Only then will the political class obtain a public mandate to dismantle the precepts of modern government entirely.

They left no legacy, or philosophical or moral precepts for which they will be remembered.

Westmalle is part of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, which traces its origins to 1098 and follows the Rule of Saint Benedict, a 6th-century book of precepts.

In the past, courts in Mexico had been able to rule on whether a new reform violated existing precepts in the Constitution or international treaties that Mexico has signed.

Judged collectively, the precepts enumerated in the Preamble – justice, domestic tranquility, the welfare, liberty for ourselves for all time – are what make us secure where they are present, insecure where they are absent.

North Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service precepts are currently set by the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner.

But if the priest's death honors the precepts of Jesus, it also implicitly shames much of what we have seen here in response to this pandemic.

It’s a mistake to draw too straight a line from Confucian precepts to the daily news from the Korean Peninsula.

Or to teaching the precepts of his humble Christian faith.

The prerequisite trust much needed in safeguarding and protecting the people had been lost to institutional indiscretion, systemic failures and dearth of re-engineering of mindset and precepts.