Do not praise oneself by slandering others
Do not build status or moral superiority through disparagement of other people.
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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI
Do not criticize others destructively
Avoid speech that attacks others' character without necessity, fairness, or constructive purpose.
Comparative atlas · Original English corpus · Evidence before conclusions
A mapping is not a verified quotation. Workbook labels are preserved. An absent mapping does not mean rejection. We do not rank the moral worth of any system.
- Religious systems
- 1/52
- Nonreligious systems
- 0/41
- Represented systems
- 1/93
- Specific anchors*
- 1/1
1.9%
0.0%
1.1%
100.0%
*Calculated from source labels beginning “Specific”; not a count of verified quotations.
Corpus definition
Avoid speech that attacks others' character without necessity, fairness, or constructive purpose.
This is the atlas’s definition, not a substitute for a tradition’s own interpretation. Scope, exceptions and translations require review of each source.
Preserved calculation difference
The original index differs from recomputed unique-system or specific-anchor counts. Both are retained; the source file is unchanged.
All Systems: source 94 · recomputed 93
Evidence, mapping by mapping
1 selected mappings
Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor
Do not criticize others destructively · System profile
Workbook anchor (not a quotation)
Ten Grave Prohibition: do not criticize others
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Specific primary/official anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist
Verify the exact translation, ritual context, and interpretive scope before formal quotation.
Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10548. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.
History and geography: source limits
This edition does not supply a historical genealogy or coordinates for this teaching. Transmission, invention, population and geographic presence are not inferred from a mapping.
Explore connections in the same category
Shared systems in the corpus, not evidence of historical influence.
Do not be stingy with material or spiritual resources
Share resources, knowledge, attention, and support rather than withholding them through selfishness.
Do not surrender to destructive anger
Recognize anger without allowing it to govern speech, judgment, or harmful action.
Unmodified source statistics
| Primary Rank - Religious | 573 |
|---|---|
| Overall Rank | 586 |
| Nonreligious Rank | 523 |
| Religious Frequency Tier | 39 |
| Religions Sharing | 1 |
| Religious Systems | 52 |
| Religious % | 1.9 |
| Nonreligious Groups Sharing | 0 |
| Nonreligious Groups | 41 |
| Nonreligious % | 0 |
| All Systems Sharing | 1 |
| All Systems | 94 |
| Overall % | 1.1 |
| Direct Official Anchors | 1 |
| Direct Evidence % | 100 |
| Cross-Sphere Balance Index | 0 |
| Religious Adoption Gap | 1.9 |
Specialized or emerging teaching