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Eight Precepts meaning in Myanmar

သီတင်းသီလ sitang:sila.

Eight Precepts in Myanmar: သီတင်းသီလ (sitang:sila.), ရှစ်ပါးသီလ (hracpa:sila.), အဋ္ဌင်္ဂသီလ (athtangga.sila.). In English, Eight Precepts means eight rules that are observed by lay Buddhists on observance days and festivals: to abstain from (i) taking life, (ii) taking what is not given, (iii) unchastity, (iv) false speech, (v) intoxicants which cause a careless frame of mind, (vi) taking food at the wrong time, (vii) dancing, music, visiting shows, flowers, make-up, the wearing of ornaments and decorations, and (viii) a tall, high sleeping place.

Myanmar words for Eight Precepts

Eight Precepts
သီတင်းသီလ sitang:sila., ရှစ်ပါးသီလ hracpa:sila., အဋ္ဌင်္ဂသီလ athtangga.sila.

English meaning of Eight Precepts

  1. noun Eight rules that are observed by lay Buddhists on observance days and festivals: to abstain from (i) taking life, (ii) taking what is not given, (iii) unchastity, (iv) false speech, (v) intoxicants which cause a careless frame of mind, (vi) taking food at the wrong time, (vii) dancing, music, visiting shows, flowers, make-up, the wearing of ornaments and decorations, and (viii) a tall, high sleeping place.

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What is the meaning of Eight Precepts in Myanmar?
Eight Precepts in Myanmar is သီတင်းသီလ (sitang:sila.), ရှစ်ပါးသီလ (hracpa:sila.), အဋ္ဌင်္ဂသီလ (athtangga.sila.).
Eight Precepts ရဲ့ အဓိပ္ပာယ်က ဘာလဲ။
Eight Precepts: သီတင်းသီလ (sitang:sila.), ရှစ်ပါးသီလ (hracpa:sila.), အဋ္ဌင်္ဂသီလ (athtangga.sila.).
What does Eight Precepts mean in English?
Eight Precepts means eight rules that are observed by lay Buddhists on observance days and festivals: to abstain from (i) taking life, (ii) taking what is not given, (iii) unchastity, (iv) false speech, (v) intoxicants which cause a careless frame of mind, (vi) taking food at the wrong time, (vii) dancing, music, visiting shows, flowers, make-up, the wearing of ornaments and decorations, and (viii) a tall, high sleeping place.

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