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The '''sixteen serious faults''' (Tib. ལྕི་བ་བཅུ་དྲུག, ''chiwa chudruk'', [[Wyl.]] ''lci ba bcu drug'') or '''sixteen grave actions'''<ref>[[Kangyur Rinpoche]], ''Treasury of Precious Qualities'', Boston: Shambhala, 2001, p. 353, n.28 Note that the list there differs slightly from what is given here, which is based on [[Dungkar Lobzang Trinlé]]'s ''Great Dictionary''.</ref> are divided into four sets of four:

===Four serious wrong actions (Wyl. ''log pa'i lci ba bzhi'')<ref>Dungkar, ''Great Dictionary'', p. 1976</ref> ===
#To sit in a higher seat than a learned scholar (''mkhas pa'i gong lci'')
#To accept prostrations from a fully ordained monk or a great meditator (''sgom chen gyi phyag lci'')
#To steal the provisions of a meditator (''sgom sgrub mkhan gyi zas lci'')
#To steal the ritual objects or wealth of a tantric practitioner (''sngags pa'i nor lci'')

===Four serious impairments (Wyl. ''nyams pa'i lci ba bzhi'')<ref>ibid, p.923 </ref>===
#As an ordinary person, to swear using the name of the [[Three Jewels]] (''mi chos la mna' zos nyams pa lci'')
#To impair the [[shravaka]] precepts of the [[Vinaya]] (''nyan po la 'dul khrims nyams pa lci'')
#To impair the [[bodhisattva vow|precepts of the bodhisattva trainings]] (''byang chub sems dpa' la bslab khrims nyams pa lci'')
#As a [[mantrayana]] practitioner, to impair the [[samaya]]s (''gsang sngags la dam tshig nyams pa lci'')

===Four serious disrespectful actions (Wyl. ''smod pa'i lci ba bzhi'')<ref>ibid, p.1645</ref>===
#Out of [[ignorance]], to have contempt for the [[Buddha]]'s physical form (''gti mug dbang gis 'phags pa'i sku la smod pa lci'')
#Out of [[pride]],  to have contempt for the truth (''nga rgyal dbang gis bden pa'i tshig la smod pa lci'')
#Out of [[jealousy]], to have contempt for the qualities of friends (''phrag dog dbang gis grogs kyi yon tan la smod pa lci'')
#Out of partiality, to discriminate between deities (''phyogs ris dbang gis lha la blang dor byas pa lci'')

===Four serious denigrating actions (Wyl. ''bskur ba'i lci ba bzhi'')<ref>ibid. p. 278</ref>===
#To make distinctions within perfect equality (''mnyam nyid don la khyad 'don lci'')
#To hold to distinctions of relative importance among [[samadhi]]s (''ting 'dzin dag la gal 'dzugs lci'')
#To shed a [[buddha]]'s blood, the most serious of the [[five crimes with immediate retribution]] (''mtshams med lnga la khrag phyung lci'') 
#To hold wrong views, the most serious of the [[ten unwholesome actions]] (''mi dge bcu la log lta lci'')

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