Sentence examples for precepts the first from inspiring English sources

For lay people this is articulated as the five training precepts, the first three of which involve avoiding killing living beings, not taking what is not freely offered to you and abstaining from sexual misconduct (the other two involve speech and intoxicants).

He teaches medical students and residents in the clinical setting, and precepts the VA Journal Club.

Theirs was the culture of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (750 1258), the final ruling dynasty built on the precepts of the first Muslim community (ummah) in the Islamic world.

The Constitutional precept is the first legal ground for impeachment proceedings against Thomas.

Much of their book attempts to match the challenges of current life — a shrinking manufacturing sphere, a global labor surplus, a mire of race-inflected socioeconomic traps — with Marx's quite specific precepts about the nineteenth-century European economy.

Aging, for example, is explicitly understood only by incorporating the precepts of the second law.

Occasionally, such as during the fortnightly fast day, they may observe eight precepts (aṣṭā-sīla; the first nine, with the seventh and eight combined as one).

"Dazzle and enthrall me, be so fantastic as to delight me and so convincing as to turn me on" are the first precepts of the third pole, and, sadly, often its last.

Since the beginnings of the Buddhist community, monks and nuns have had to commit themselves to the Five Precepts of moral conduct, the first of which has been to abstain from killing.

Mr. Bernanke has been known to recite the first precept of the Hippocratic Oath: do no harm.

"No killing is the first precept of Buddhism and must never be violated," the Chinese Tibetologist Li Decheng wrote in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party.