The Bodhisattva Precepts (Chinese: 菩薩戒; pinyin: púsà jiè, Japanese: bosatsukai) are a set of moral codes used in Mahayana Buddhism to advance a practitioner along the path to becoming a Bodhisattva. Traditionally, monastics observed the basic moral code in Buddhism, the Pratimoksha, but in the Mahayana tradition, monks would additionally observe the Bodhisattva Precepts on top of the existing code.
Alternatively, the Bodhisattva Precepts are often called the "Brahma Net Precepts" (Chinese: 梵網戒; pinyin: Fànwǎng jiè; Wade–Giles: Fan wang jie), particularly in Buddhist scholarship.
Read more about Bodhisattva Precepts: Origin, In Practice, The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts in Soto Zen
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