Sutra of Miscellaneous Karmic Acts from the Dharmagupt (曇無德律部雜羯磨)

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Cao Wei · Source text translated by 康僧鎧

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The Miscellaneous Karmavācanā of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, translated during the Cao Wei period by the scripture translator Saṅghavarman, is an important text of the Buddhist Vinaya Piṭaka. Composed during the Three Kingdoms period, it belongs to the Dharmaguptaka school's Vinaya literature, recording the monastic community's codes of conduct and karmavācanā rituals. Its contents encompass essential monastic procedures such as ordination, recitation of precepts, and confession, providing guidelines for the daily practice of monastics. This Vinaya text holds a fundamental position within the Chinese Buddhist Vinaya system and possesses key value for researching the transmission of early Buddhist precepts and the development of the Chinese Vinaya school. It stands as one of the authoritative scriptures for understanding Buddhist monastic institutions and the practice of precepts.