Fourfold Rules of Discipline
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Fourfold Rules of Discipline, The 四分律 (Chin Ssu-fen-lü; Jpn Shibun-ritsu): A text of the Indian Dharmagupta school on the vinaya, or rules of monastic discipline, translated into Chinese in the early fifth century by Buddhayashas and Chu Fo-nien.
The Dharmagupta school was one of the twenty Hinayana schools of ancient India.
The Fourfold Rules of Discipline is so called because it divides the monastic rules into four sections; it sets forth 250 precepts for monks and 348 for nuns.
This work is the vinaya text of the Precepts (Lü; Ritsu) school in China and Japan.
