Updated 14 April 2024

Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts) ending with Wrong View

Theravada Buddhism has two different versions of Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts)

Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts)

Dasa Sila (The Ten Precepts) ending with wrong view/micchā-ditthiyā

Professor Georg W Bond explains in the Chapter Theravada Buddhism’s Two Formulations of the Dasa Sila and the Ethics of the Gradual Path in Pali Buddhism on pages 17-19

Theravada’s texts and commentaries contain two formulations of the dasa sīla which differ at important points…

The second formulation of dasa sīla …is much less well known in the practice of traditional Theravada…One undertakes to abstain from

1. killing and injuring living beings/pāṇātipātā
2. taking that which is not given/adinnādānā
3. wrong sexual conduct/kāmesu micchācārā
4. speaking falsely/musāvādā
5. slander/pisuṇāvācā
6. harsh speech/pharusāyavācā
7. frivolous talk/samphappalāpā
8. covetousness/abhijjhaya
9. malevolence/byāpādā
10. wrong view/micchā-ditthiyā

Bibliography

Books

Hoffman, Frank J. and Mahinda Deegalle (Editors). Pali Buddhism. 1996. (Richmond UK, Curzon Press). (Studies in Asian Philosophy Series). (ISBN 0-7007-0359-4).
Bond, George. D. Section I Philological Foundations, Chapter 1 Theravada Buddhism’s Two Formulations of the Dasa Sila and the Ethics of the Gradual Path.
https://archive.org/details/palibuddhismmahindadeegallefrankhoffmanj.sunnynum_357_J

Hoffman, Frank J. and Mahinda Deegalle (Editors). Pali Buddhism. 2016.(UK, Routledge). (Studies in Asian Philosophy Series). (ISBN 0-9781138994737).
Bond, George. D. Section I Philological Foundations, Chapter 1 Theravada Buddhism’s Two Formulations of the Dasa Sila and the Ethics of the Gradual Path.
https://www.routledge.com/Pali-Buddhism/Hoffman-Mahinda/p/book/9781138994737

Websites

Theravada Buddhism’s Two Formulations of the dasa sila and the Ethics of the Gradual Path.
https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/theravada-buddhisms-two-formulations-of-the-dasa-sila-and-the-eth