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'morality consisting in good behaviour',
relates to the external duties of a monk such as towards his
superior, etc.
"abhisamācārika-sīla is a name for those moral
rules other than the 8 ending with right livelihood (i.e. 4-fold right speech,
3-fold right action and right livelihood, as in the Eightfold Path) (Vis.M. I;
s. sacca IV, 3-5).
"Impossible is it, o monks, that without having
fulfilled the law of good behaviour, a monk could fulfil the law of genuine pure
conduct" (A.V.21).
Cf. Ādibrahmacariyakasīla.

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