Ming · by 如馨纂要
20,683 · about 69 min
Compiled by the eminent Ming Dynasty monk, Vinaya Master Guxin Ruxin. This work emerged against the backdrop of the revival of Buddhist precepts in the late Ming period, systematically organizing the Uposatha ceremony procedures and the articles of precepts in response to the decline of Vinaya studies at the time. Its content covers the Uposatha procedures, chanting norms, explanations of precepts, and rules for repentance, aiming to rectify monastic conduct and revitalize the transmission of the Vinaya. As an important text of the Vinaya school in Chinese Buddhism, this book provides a rigorous practical model for Uposatha for later generations, exerting a profound influence on the precept revival movement during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is revered as a core guide for the study and practice of the Vinaya.