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<h4>The Discipline of Abstaining from Misdeeds</h4>
<h4>The Discipline of Abstaining from Misdeeds</h4>
The practice of bodhisattva moral discipline after taking the bodhisattva vow is often presented in three categories.
# The discipline of abstaining from misdeeds
# The discipline of gathering virtue
# The discipline of working for the welfare of the sentient beings
The discipline of abstaining from misdeeds includes the moral precepts a bodhisattva must follow and the major and minor transgressions, known as downfalls in the Buddhist vocabulary. These are listed below. The second and third discipline concern things a bodhisattva should do and will be covered in subsequent sections.





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