Abstract
Abstract The Avatmr, saka Sutra says, “The precepts are the foundation of supreme enlightenment:1’ Thus, one could say that the basic spirit of Buddhism is to be found in the solemn dignity of the precepts, or moral restraints, that describe the life of the Buddhist renunciant, and in the importance that followers of the Buddha’s teaching attach to their observance. For anyone who becomes a disciple of the Buddha, whether a layperson or one who has formally left the household life as a renunciant, the first great act by which one enters the gate of Buddhism is to receive the precepts. Without this, one is not really sanctioned by the Buddhist tradition, even though one may consider oneself to be a believer and practitioner of Buddhism. One is just an ordinary person who hangs outside the gate.
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