Since the beginnings of the Buddhist community, monks and nuns have had to commit themselves to Five Precepts of moral conduct.

In ancient Buddhism, lay persons were encouraged, but not obliged, to commit themselves to observe the Five Precepts of morality ().

The first of the Five Precepts ( Panca-sila ) is to abstain from destruction of life.

Both Mahayana and Theravada thinking is that eating meat in and of itself does not constitute a violation of the Five Precepts which prohibit one from directly harming life.

It is part of the Five Precepts which dictate that one is not to consume " addictive materials ".

Under the Five Precepts ethical code, Upāsaka and Upāsikā lay followers should abstain from sexual misconduct, while Bhikkhu and Bhikkhuni monastics should practice strict chastity.

The Five Precepts of the Daoist religion include No Sexual Misconduct, which is interpreted as prohibiting extramarital sex for lay practitioners and marriage or sexual intercourse for monks and nuns.

Many followers of Buddhism observe a code of conduct known as the Five Precepts, of which the fifth precept prohibits consumption of intoxicating substances ( except for medical reasons ).

In the Pali Canon, the Buddha describes the Five Precepts as gifts toward oneself and others:

In concise terms, the late Dharma Master Yin-Shun, listed the Five Precepts simply as ( translation by Wing H. Yeung, M. D.

Different Buddhist traditions adhere to other lists of precepts that have some overlap with the Five Precepts.

The Five Precepts: Pañca-sila.

5 Five Precepts

Devout Buddhists undertake to lead a noble life according to the teaching by making daily affirmations to observe the Five Precepts.

In the case of Buddhism, both bhikkhus ( monks ) and bhikkhunis ( nuns ) were forbidden to take life in any form as part of the monastic code, while non-violence was promoted among laity through encouragement of the Five Precepts.

Across the Buddhist world both meat and alcohol are strongly discouraged as offerings to a Buddhist altar, with the former being synonymous with sacrifice, and the latter a violation of the Five Precepts.

* Excerpt from Thich Nhat Hanh on Sila The Third Precept: Sexual Responsibility For a Future to Be Possible: Commentaries on the Five Wonderful Precepts ( 1993 ) by Thich Nhat Hanh.

: See also Five Precepts and Timeline of Reiki history

While in the process of developing his Reiki system, Usui summarised some of the emperor's works into a set of ethical principles ( called the " Concepts " 概念 Gainen ), which later became known as the Five Reiki Precepts ( 五戒 Gokai, meaning " The Five Commandments ", from the Buddhist teachings against killing, thievery, sexual misconduct, lying, and intemperance ).

Note: Commonly called the Five Precepts or Five Principles, they start in the third column from the right below the space, and continue in the fourth and fifth columns from the right.

* Five Precepts

Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott took Five Precepts at the Wijayananda Viharaya located at Weliwatta in Galle on May 19, 1880.

Shinnyo-en practitioners in pursuing the Path to Nirvana vow to abide by the Five Precepts ( Pali: pañca-sīlāni ) and follow the Eightfold Path.

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

This trend has often been ascribed to the cult of the Five Elements itself, as though they had served as the base for all the rest ; ;

These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

* Naturalism, the School of Naturalists or the Yin-yang school, which synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang ( 陰陽家 / 阴阳家 ; Yīnyángjiā ; Yin-yang-chia ; " School of Yin-Yang ") was a Warring States era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements ; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school.

Following the examples of Vitruvius and the five books of the Regole generali d ' architettura by Sebastiano Serlio, published from 1537 onwards, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola produced an architecture rule book that was more practical than the previous two books, which were more philosophical in nature, his Cinque ordini di erchitettura ( The Five Orders of Architecture ) from 1562 ; the book is considered " one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written ", despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

Misfortune befell the Wings six days after their championship ; defenseman Vladimir Konstantinov, one of the Wings ' " Russian Five ", suffered a brain injury in a limousine accident, and his career came to an abrupt end.

Some of their early films include four written by A. A. Milne including The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith ; Twice Two ; Five Pound Reward ; and Bookworms.

The Five Pillars of Islam ( ; also " pillars of the religion ") are five basic acts in Islam, considered obligatory by believers.

Five years later they laid siege to Chersonesos Taurica ; their cavalry kept roaming the steppes of Crimea until 590.

Two of his works from this period are the Senji Shō ( 撰時抄: " The Selection of the Time ") and the Hōon Shō ( 報恩抄: " On Repaying Debts of Gratitude "), which, along with his Risshō Ankoku Ron ( 立正安国論: " On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land "), Kaimoku Shō (" The Opening of the Eyes "), and Kanjin no Honzon Shō (" The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind "), constitute his Five Major Writings.

Together, these points are known as ' The Five Essentials ' and constitute the central aspects of sailing.

Section Five deals with procedure, providing that " Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business ," although a small number may adjourn and compel the attendance of absent members.

Five innings constitute a game, depending on the level of the match.

Five basic forces

His theory attempted to explain the universe in terms of basic forces in nature: the complementary agents of yin ( dark, cold, female, negative ) and yang ( light, hot, male, positive ) and the Five Elements or Five Phases ( water, fire, wood, metal, and earth ).

Five of these formats are called basic formats and others are termed extended formats, and three of these are especially widely used in computer hardware and languages:

" Their basic religious practices are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers ( salat ), fasting during Ramadan ( sawm ), almsgiving ( zakat ), and the pilgrimage to Mecca ( hajj ) at least once in a lifetime.

It was designed addressing his emblematic " Five Points ", the basic tenets in his new architectural aesthetic:

Five basic modes are supported:

News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event-who, what, when, where and why ( the Five Ws ) and also often how-at the opening of the article.

Five jaathis times seven tala groups gives thirty-five basic talas, although use of other angas results in a total of 108 talas.

Five basic modes of alternative splicing are generally recognized.

His theory attempted to explain the universe in terms of basic forces in nature: the complementary agents of yin ( dark, cold, female, negative ) and yang ( light, hot, male, positive ) and the Five Elements or Five Phases ( water, fire, wood, metal, and earth ).

The basic foundations of the beliefs of the church can be summarized in the Apostles ' Creed, and The Twenty Five Articles of Religion, held in common with other Methodist Episcopal congregations.

As such, they believe in the basic tenets of Islam, such as the Six Elements of Belief and the Five Pillars of Islam.

The Five solae are five Latin phrases that emerged during the Protestant Reformation and summarize the Reformers ' basic theological beliefs in contradistinction to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church of the day.

* Five basic classes – 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th class.

* Five basic classes – 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th class ;

* Five basic classes-1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th class ;

* Five basic classes – 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th class.

They then recite certain basic Buddhist prayers or chants ( typically including taking the Three Refuges and the Five Precepts ), and light incense and candles before the image.

Sometimes a fourth basic conflict is described, " man against society ", Some of the other types of conflict referenced include " man against machine " ( The Terminator, Brave New World ), " man against fate " ( Slaughterhouse Five ), " man against the supernatural " ( The Shining ) and " man against god " ( A Canticle for Liebowitz ).

* All American Five, a basic design for a mass-produced superheterodyne radio using five tubes

The Big Five orchestras of the United States are the five symphony orchestras that led the field in " musical excellence, calibre of musicianship, total contract weeks, weekly basic wages, recording guarantees, and paid vacations " when the term gained currency in the late 1950s and for some years afterwards.