Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c9.46

c9.46

The second part deals with forty-eight other rules, which are considered secondary². Most of them are found in the Pātimokkha sutta or the Śikṣāsamuccaya. They deal with rules regulating eating and drinking, confessing, treatment to be accorded to friends, teachers, etc., means of livelihood, forming praṇidhānas, and so forth³. The Sūtra under consideration is like many other Mahāyāna sūtras an attempt to synthesise the life and ideal of a bodhisattva with those of a Hīnayānic bhikṣu. It is also a compilation like the Śikṣāsamuccaya but it has confined itself more to the actual rules than the Śikṣāsamuccaya does.