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WORLD MORALS EDITION XXI

Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics

Three Refuges, Three Pure Precepts, Ten Grave Prohibitions, and Soto Zen practice texts

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.

Classification and source basis

Three Refuges, Three Pure Precepts, Ten Grave Prohibitions, and Soto Zen practice texts

Corpus family: Dharmic / Buddhist

Corpus classification: Religious

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Mapped teachings and source anchors

164 mappings

Do not praise oneself by slandering others

Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor

Do not praise oneself by slandering others · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Ten Grave Prohibition: do not praise self and slander others

Open original source ↗ www.sotozen.com

Specific primary/official anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist

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Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10335. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

Receive precepts as living commitments

Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor

Receive precepts as living commitments · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Soto Zen reception and observance of bodhisattva precepts

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Specific primary/official anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist

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Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10369. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

Do not be stingy with material or spiritual resources

Soto Zen Buddhist Ethics · Specific primary/official anchor

Do not be stingy with material or spiritual resources · System profile

Workbook anchor (not a quotation)

Ten Grave Prohibition concerning withholding or stinginess

Open original source ↗ www.sotozen.com

Specific primary/official anchor · Dharmic / Buddhist

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Independent review pending. Edition XXI · Teaching Evidence · row 10547. Source publisher, date, translation and license have not been validated.

Do not criticize others destructively

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

Open original source ↗ www.sotozen.com

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.

Research gaps

The workbook does not provide a verified institutional history, chronology, founder, branches, population figures or geographic distribution here. Unsupported claims have not been added. Interpretations within a system may vary.

Provenance: Universal Moral Code — Statistical Atlas, Edition XXI. Names, definitions and source anchors are preserved verbatim. This atlas describes its corpus, not all beliefs or practices worldwide.