Four serious faults

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Four serious faults

  1. taking the head of the row of scholars, i.e.to assume a higher rank than one has
  2. appropriating a tantrika's wealth
  3. accepting the homage of a fully ordained monk
  4. eating the practitioner's food (this only refers to the specific situation where eating the provisions of a practitioner who is short of food and who has decided, "With this amount of food I can practise x number of months," will make his or her food run out prematurely)

Source: Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher (Boston: Shambhala, 2004) page 230.