Part I. Virtue (Sīla)

• I. Description of Virtue
  • 1 I. Introductory
  • 2 II. Virtue
  • 3 (i) What is virtue?
  • 4 (ii) In what sense is it virtue?
  • 5 (iii) What are its characteristic, etc.?
  • 6 (iv) What are the benefits of virtue?
  • 7 (v) How many kinds of virtue are there?
    • 7.1 1. Monad
    • 7.2 2.–8. Dyads
    • 7.3 9.–13. Triads
    • 7.4 14.–17. Tetrads
      • 7.4.1 Virtue of the fourfold purification
        • 7.4.1.1 (a) Virtue of Pātimokha restraint
        • 7.4.1.2 (b) Virtue of restraint of the sense faculties
        • 7.4.1.3 (c) Virtue of livelihood purification
        • 7.4.1.4 (d) Virtue concerning requisites
        • 7.4.1.5 (a) Pātimokha restraint by means of faith
        • 7.4.1.6 (b) Restraint of the sense faculties by means of mindfulness
        • 7.4.1.7 (c) Livelihood purification by means of energy
        • 7.4.1.8 (d) Virtue dependent on requisites by means of understanding
    • 7.5 18.–19. Pentads
  • 8 (vi), (vii) What are the defiling and the cleansing of it?
• II. The Ascetic Practices
  • 1 The 13 kinds of Ascetic Practices
  • 2 Meaning
  • 3 Characteristic
  • 4 Undertaking, directions, etc.
    • 4.1 Refuse-rag-wearer
    • 4.2 Triple-robe-wearer
    • 4.3 Alms-food-eater
    • 4.4 House-to-house seeker
    • 4.5 One-sessioner
    • 4.6 Bowl-food-eater
    • 4.7 Late-food-refuser
    • 4.8 Forest-dweller
    • 4.9 Tree-root-dweller
    • 4.10 Open-air-dweller
    • 4.11 Charnel-groud-dweller
    • 4.12 Any-bed-user
    • 4.13 Sitter
  • 5 Profitable triad
  • 6 Ascetic and so on distinguished
  • 7 Groups
  • 8 Singly