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• buddhist scriptures
• buddhist societies
• stewart mcfarlane
• western ethics
• damien keown
• anthropological evidence
• peter harvey
• negative actions
• laypeople
• cambridge university
• pancasila
• intoxicants
• layperson
• sexual misconduct
• wikipedia
• imperatives
• precepts
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Buddhist Ethics, Buddhist Ethics

Moral instructions are included in Buddhist scriptures or handed down through tradition. Most scholars of Buddhist ethics thus rely on the examination of Buddhist scriptures, and the use of anthropological evidence from traditional Buddhist societies, to justify claims about the nature of Buddhist ethics. Damien Keown The Nature of Buddhist Ethics Macmillan 1992; Peter Harvey An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics Cambridge University Press 2000 For more on the academic discussion of Buddhist ethics, and its contested relationship to Western ethics, see alternative Wikipedia article on Buddhist Ethics According to traditional Buddhism, the foundation of Buddhist ethics for laypeople is the Pancasila: no killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, or intoxicants. In becoming a Buddhist, or affirming one's commitment to Buddhism, a layperson is encouraged to vow to abstain from these negative actions. The precepts are not formulated as imperatives, but as training rules that laypeople undertake voluntarily to facilitate practice. Stewart McFarlane in Peter Harvey, ed., Buddhism.

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