Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c9.41
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c9.41
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c9.41
The Prātimokṣa rules are enumerated in detail after these forty acquirements. The first part of the Prātimokṣa rules deals with the ten serious offences, making a bodhisattva guilty of Pārājikā. The first four of them are identical with the four Pārājikā offences of the Pātimokkha sutta in Pāli. They are abrahmacarya (misconduct), adattādāna (stealing), vadha (killing), and uttaramanuṣyadharmālāpa (laying claim to powers and knowledge not usually possessed by human beings). The additional six are:—