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མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ། | Glossary of Terms
མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
mi dge ba bcu
daśākuśala
- Term
- Ten nonvirtuous actions
- མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- mi dge ba bcu
- daśākuśala
Killing, taking what is not given, sexual misconduct, lying, uttering divisive talk, speaking harsh words, gossiping, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten nonvirtuous actions
- མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- mi dge ba bcu
- daśākuśala
Ten unethical and harmful behaviors. They consist of actions of the body (killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct), speech (lying, slandering, harsh words, and gossip), and the mind (covetousness, harmful intent, and wrong view).
- Ten nonvirtuous actions
- མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- mi dge ba bcu
- daśākuśala
Killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, gossip, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten nonvirtuous deeds
- མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- mi dge ba bcu
- daśākuśala
Killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, gossip, covetousness, ill will, and wrong views.
- Ten sins
- མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- mi dge ba bcu
- daśākuśala
These are the opposite of the ten virtues, and consist of killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, harsh speech, backbiting, frivolous speech, covetousness, malice, and false views.
- Ten unwholesome deeds
- མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུ།
- mi dge ba bcu
- daśākuśalakarman
The ten negative actions to be avoided. Traditionally these are listed according to the threefold distinction of body, speech, and mind. The ten are (1) killing, (2) stealing, (3) sexual misconduct, (4) lying, (5) slanderous speech, (6) harsh speech, (7) meaningless speech, (8) covetousness, (9) ill will, and (10) wrong views.