五戒

Readings

Pinyin: wǔjiè

Wade-Giles: wu-chieh

Hangul: 오계

Korean MC: ogye

Korean MR: ogye

Katakana: ゴカイ

Hepburn: gokai

ngũ giới

five precepts

• (Skt. pañca-śīla) The minimal set of moral restrictions to be observed by Buddhist householder-practitioners. They are:
  1. not killing 不殺生;
  2. not stealing 不偸盗;
  3. no debauchery 不邪婬;
  4. 不妄語 no false speech;
  5. 不飮酒 no consumption of alcohol.
  These are binding on laity, male and female, as well as on monks and nuns. The observance of these five ensures rebirth in the human realm. Each command has five spirits to guard its observer 五戒二十五神. (Skt. pañca-śikṣā-padāni, pañca-śikṣā; Pāli pañca-sīla; Tib. tshul khrims lnga) [resp. Charles Muller; source(s): Nakamura,Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, JEBD, Yokoi, Iwanami]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 266

Bulgyo sajeon, 602a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.), 330a

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 261

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 83a/91

Zenrin shōkisen (Mujaku Dōchū), 330/306

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi), 166

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 14-P212

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 356b

Fo Guang Dictionary, 1097

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 0088

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 157-1*513-1

(Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, 118

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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