ORIGIN OF PRECEPTS FOR DECENT CONDUCTS OF MONKS IN MAHAYANA BUDDHISM

Abstract

The Discipline was prescribed by the Buddha for the restricting behavior of monks aiming at living together peacefully, consisting of the fundamental precepts and out of the fundamental ones or called the precept for decent conduct of monks. In Mahayana Buddhism, the origin of this kind of precept took placed due to the situation of geography that highly contrasts making the emergences of the precepts for decent conduct, for example, the ordination, the type of robe dressing etc. For the social precept, it had the development in many directions such as married monks, food cooking, and doing for the world that has changed in accordance with various places and times. In addition, the cultural precepts also have emerged, for example, eating non vegetarian food, eating food at the night time etc.