The Second Treatise on the Perfections – 2744
2. Morality that is unlimited in purity (
apariyanta-pārisuddhi-sīla
).
3. Morality that is fulfilled in purity (
paripuṇṇa-pārisuddhi-sīla
).
4. Morality that is irreproachable in purity (
aparāmaṭṭha-pārisuddhi-sīla
).
5. Morality that is calmed in purity (
paṭippassaddhi-pārisuddhi-sīla
).
1. Morality that is limited in purity (
pariyanta-pārisuddhi-sīla
). Morality
observed by lay devotees and novices is called morality consisting in limited
purification, because it is limited by the number of precepts to be kept.
The Path of Purification (
Visuddhi-magga
) does not explain the limit by the
number of the precepts in the morality that is limited in purity. But the Path of
the Analytic Knowledges (
Paṭisambhidā-magga
) commentary explains, as has
been mentioned before, two kinds of limit: The limit regarding the number of
precepts observed (
sikkhāpada-pariyanta
) and the limit regarding the period of
observance of the precepts (
kāla-pariyanta
).
The limit regarding the number of precepts observed refers to the number of
precepts traditionally observed by lay devotees: one, two, three or four precepts;
five, eight or ten precepts or whatever number of precepts they can observe.
Probationers and novices keep the ten precepts. This is the limit regarding the
number of precept observed.
The limit regarding the period of observance of precepts refers to when lay
devotees make a ceremonial offering of alms, and also observe precepts within
the limited period of the ceremony; whenever they go to monastery too, they
observe precepts before returning home or for a few days or more during the
daytime or nighttime. This is the limit regarding the period of observance of
precepts.
2. Morality that is unlimited in purity (
apariyanta-pārisuddhi-sīla
). The Two
Summaries (
Dve Mātikā
),
which are the summary of the Twofold Analysis
(
Ubhato-vibhaṅga
), enumerate 227 training rules (
sikkhāpada
) for members of
the male Saṅgha. When expanded, these training rules total up to 9,185,036,000
rules. These disciplinary rules for monastics are promulgated by the Buddha and
were recorded in brief by the convenors of the First Council. The whole group
of these disciplinary rules is called morality that is unlimited in purity
(
apariyanta-pārisuddhi-sīla
).