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勸發菩提心集 3.42

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3.42

It is not the case that if bodhisattvas momentarily commit a dharma of defeat once, they immediately forfeit the pure bodhisattva precepts of restraint, as in the case of bhikṣus who, upon committing a dharma of defeat, immediately forfeit their prātimokṣa precepts. If bodhisattvas forfeit the pure bodhisattva precepts of restraint through such a violation, they are capable of receiving them again in this present life; it is not that they are incapable—unlike a bhikṣu abiding in the prātimokṣa precepts who, having committed a dharma of defeat, is incapable of receiving them again in this present life.

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