The phrase "according to the precepts of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referencing rules, principles, or guidelines that are established by a particular authority or tradition.
Example: "According to the precepts of the organization, all members must adhere to the code of conduct."
Alternatives: "in accordance with the principles of" or "as per the guidelines of".
According to the precepts of feng shui, staircases in front of doors and wide-open passages through the house are invitations for good luck to run out.
Any artist worth his -- almost always his -- avant-garde credentials who painted under these circumstances did so according to the precepts of the enormously influential critic Clement Greenberg.
The Los Angeles Times recently reported that Wendi, who is Chinese, had hired experts to decorate the California headquarters of DirecTV according to the precepts of feng-shui.
His hero, Sheppey, is a benign barber who wins £8,500 on the Irish sweepstake and decides to live according to the precepts of the New Testament.
His long bibliography includes a book of fictionalized stories ("Tales of Beatnik Glory") and epic-historical verse according to the precepts of a technique he calls "Investigative Poetry".
If Mr Döpfner keeps getting his way at Axel Springer, there will be at least one European media company that plays according to the precepts of American capitalism.
According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy, leaving a big fat goose egg with which to make stars, galaxies and us.
Rolly was a distinguished publisher and dedicated human rights activist, a good and gentle man who lived his life according to the noblest precepts, always with charm, grace and a sense of humor.
It is not "the right action" according to the Buddhist precepts he identifies with, because it sends a message of support for Israeli military actions against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
This ideology, exported in its Sunni form most fervently by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and in a Shia variant by the revolutionary regime in Iran, calls for every aspect of human life to be ordered according to the medieval precepts enshrined in sharia.
He seems to operate according to the touching precept that if you are Italian and cook the food you love, the customers will come.
