Template:Did you know nominations/Eight Precepts
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:00, 3 January 2019 (UTC)
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Eight Precepts
[edit]- ... that the Buddhist eight precepts allow lay people to lead a life similar to a monk for a day? Source: "In the second place, this observance makes the Buddhist layman more religious ... He is partly leading a monk's life." (Tachibana 1992, p.66)
- ALT1:... that during the T'ang Dynasty (7th–10th century CE), Chinese government officials would observe the Buddhist eight precepts and abstain from executing death penalties for at least a month? Source: "During the T'ang dynasty, the death penalty was not carried out in the first, fifth and ninth months, and many T'ang officials such as Po frequently fasted and observed these eight precepts during one or more of these three months, living in retirement in their homes and often inviting monks to their homes to take part in the observance." (Watson 1988, p. 13)
- Reviewed: Did you know nominations/Milo Talbot
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Converted from a redirect by Farang Rak Tham (talk). Self-nominated at 09:18, 4 December 2018 (UTC).
Review: Article is long/new enough, well-cited, no image here, article is thorough, has no copyright violations, QPQ is done, there are no standing tags, and hooks are cited (in "Practice" section) and interesting, though I strongly prefer ALT0 over ALT1. ALT1 is too wordy.
- @Farang Rak Tham:, I have a question, however. The source "Calkowski, Marcia (2006)" is listed in the References but it is not used in the Citations. Did you miss a source somewhere? MX (✉ • ✎) 16:27, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- @MX:, thanks for the review, and for pointing out that obsolete reference—I have removed it now. It was no longer used. I have also changed the name of the article slightly (capitalization), per consensus at Talk:Eight precepts#Requested move 4 December 2018.--Farang Rak Tham (Talk) 21:53, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
