On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c6.s7.22

v1.c6.s7.22

When the feast was over the pilgrim, at the Khan’s request, as we have seen, gave him an exposition of some of the leading features of Buddhism. The first in the list of subjects is the *shih-shan* (十善) or “Ten Virtues” that is, the ten excellent precepts which the Mahāyānist undertook to observe. These were not to kill, not to steal, not to commit impurity, not to be false in language, not to be double-tongued, not to use bad language, not to use fine glosing speech, not to covet, not to be angry, not to take heretical views.²