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[[Image:Pancha_sila.JPG|thumb|A tablet with an inscription of the five vows at [[Lumbini]] ]]
[[Image:Pancha_sila.JPG|thumb|A tablet with an inscription of the five vows at [[Lumbini]] ]]


The '''five lay vows''' (Skt. ''upāsakaṃvara''; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''dge bsnyen gyi sdom pa'') are:
The '''five lay vows''' (Skt. ''upāsakaṃvara''; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, [[Wyl.]] ''dge bsnyen gyi sdom pa'') — lay people can take one or several of these five vows or precepts, which are the basic vows that underpin the Buddhist way of life. They are the vows:
#not to kill,  
#not to kill,  
#not to steal,  
#not to steal,  

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A tablet with an inscription of the five vows at Lumbini

The five lay vows (Skt. upāsakaṃvara; Tib. དགེ་བསྙེན་གྱི་སྡོམ་པ་, Wyl. dge bsnyen gyi sdom pa) — lay people can take one or several of these five vows or precepts, which are the basic vows that underpin the Buddhist way of life. They are the vows:

  1. not to kill,
  2. not to steal,
  3. not to lie,
  4. not to commit sexual misconduct, and
  5. not to take any intoxicants.