[Buddha-l] Re: Karma and ethics

Richard P. Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Fri May 27 21:35:44 MDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 04:10 +0100, Stephen Hodge wrote:

> So much confusion arises through sloppy translation, thus giving rise to 
> prolonged discussions about a phantom issue.  The so-called vow in Tantra is 
> samaya and the so-called vow in Pure land is pra.nidhaana, and the so-called 
> vow in the Vinaya is something else which I can't remember right now. 

One of the terms used by Vasubandhu in his discussion of karma is
samaadaanam (samādānam), which in his discussion covers taking monastic
vows and following precepts.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico




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