The document summarizes key concepts in Buddhist ethics, including the Noble Eightfold Path, Ahimsa (non-violence), Karma Bhava Chakra (cycle of rebirth), and Sila (morality). It describes: 1) The Noble Eightfold Path as the system to achieve enlightenment through Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration. 2) Ahimsa as non-violence and compassion in Buddhism, which applies to all living beings and stems from the idea that hurting another is hurting oneself. 3) Karma Bhava Chakra as representing the cyclical nature

1. Buddhist Ethics
Part - II
Presentation By:
Dr.Pratibha Sagar,
Deptt.of Education

2. Index
1. The Eightfold Noble Paths
2. Ahimsa
3. Karma Bhava Chakra
4. Sila

3. Ethics
Ethics is the philosophical study
of Morality. Ethics is defined as
systematic understanding of
moral concepts and justifies the
theories and principles of right
behaviour that guides individuals
and groups on how to behave in
the society.

4. THE NOBLE
EIGHTFOLD PATH

5. The Noble Eightfold Path
The Eightfold Path of
Buddhism, also called the
Middle Path or Middle Way,
is the system of following
these eight divisions of the
path to achieve spiritual
enlightenment and cease
suffering.

6. The Noble Eightfold Path
The Buddha’s ‘Noble
Eightfold Path’ is a
further ‘unpacking’ of the
‘Threefold Way’ and is
perhaps the most widely
known of the Buddha’s
teachings.

7. The Noble Eightfold Path
• Right View
• Right Intention
Wisdom
• Right Speech
• Right Action
• Right Livelihood
Morality
• Right Effort
• Right Mindfulness
• Right Concentration
Meditation

8. The Noble EightFold Path

9. The Noble Eightfold Path
1. Right Views
– Give the knowledge of Pain, its
Cause, Cessation & the Path
2. Right Intentions
– Gives aspiration to renunciation &
benevolence
3. Right Speech
– Abstains from lies and slander
4. Right Action
– Abstains from stealing, killing &
self-indulgence.

10. The Noble Eightfold Path
5. Right Livelihood
– Follows right pursuits
6. Right Effort
– Turns against evil states and
towards good
7. Right Mindfulness
– Looks on mind & body with self-
control
8. Right Contemplation
– Rises above evil and abides in
equanimity & bliss

11. Ahimsa in Buddhism

12. Ahimsa
Ahimsa means 'not to injure' and
'compassion’. The word is
derived from the Sanskrit root
hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or
harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of
this, i.e. cause no injury, do no
harm. Ahimsa is also referred to
as nonviolence, and it applies to
all living beings—including all
animals—in ancient Indian
religions.

13. Ahimsa
Ahimsa is one of the cardinal virtues
and an important tenet of Jainism,
Hinduism, and Buddhism. Ahimsa is
a multidimensional concept, inspired
by the premise that all living beings
have the spark of the divine spiritual
energy; therefore, to hurt another
being is to hurt oneself. Ahimsa has
also been related to the notion that
any violence has karmic
consequences.

14. Ahimsa in Buddhism
• Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources,
in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa
(or its Pāli cognate Avihiṃsā) is
not used as a technical term. The
traditional Buddhist understanding
of non-violence is not as rigid as
the Jain one, but like the Jains,
Buddhists have always
condemned the killing of all living
beings.

15. Ahimsa in Buddhism
• In most Buddhist traditions
vegetarianism is not
mandatory. Monks and lay
persons may eat meat and fish
on condition that the animal
was not killed specifically for
them.

16. Ahimsa in Buddhism
• Since the beginnings of the
Buddhist community, monks and
nuns have had to commit
themselves to Five Precepts of
moral conduct.
• In ancient Buddhism, lay persons
were encouraged, but not
obliged, to commit themselves to
observe the Five Precepts of
morality (Pañcasīla).

17. Ahimsa in Buddhism
• In both codes the first rule is to
abstain from taking the life of a
sentient being (Pānātipātā).
Buddhist monks should avoid
cutting or burning trees,
because some sentient beings
rely on them.

18. Karma Bhava Chakra

19. Karma Bhava Chakra
The bhava-chakra (“wheel of
becoming,” also referred to as the
wheel of samsāra or rebirth) is
both a conceptual and visual
representation of the Buddhist
cosmology, including the
interrelated teachings of samsāra,
the the Four Noble Truths, the six
realms, the three klesha
(poisons), the twelve causal links,
and spiritual awakening.

20. Karma Bhava Chakra
Bhava-chakra symbolizes the
cyclical and impermanent view of
life in Buddhism, and shows the
root causes of suffering as well
as the possibility of liberation
(nirvana). In addition to
simplifying a potentially
confusing set of doctrines, this
symbolic diagram also made the
Buddha's teachings accessible to
the one and all.

21. Karma Bhava Chakra

22. Karma Bhava Chakra
The Buddha's teachings on karma
and rebirth are closely related. The
doctrine of karma in Buddhist
Philosophy is based on the
doctrines, the present life of man is
the result of his past life and the
future depends upon the present.
Because of their karmas, men are
not similar, but some are long
living, some short living, some
healthy and unhealthy etc.

23. Karma Bhava Chakra
•In the Buddhist philosophy, the
succession of the world has been
called BhavaChakra. In their cycle,
the chain of the cause and effects
is always operating. It is this effect
which has been emphasized in the
doctrine of the dependent
origination.

24. Karma Bhava Chakra
Both birth and death are two links in
the same chain. As the old is
destroyed, the new takes birth. Not
only human beings, but all living
beings are caught in this cycle of the
world.
“All suffering comes from serving
oneself, and all happiness comes
from serving others.” That is a
Bhava. That is the attitude of a
bodhisattva.

25. Sila

26. Sila
The Indian term for ethics or
morality used in Buddhism is Śīla
(Sanskrit: शील) or sīla (Pāli).
Śīla in Buddhism is one of three
sections of the Noble Eightfold
Path, and is a code of conduct that
embraces a commitment to
harmony and self-restraint with
the principal motivation being
non-violence, or freedom from
causing harm

27. Sila
In the Buddhist spiritual path of
liberation towards Nirvana, the state of
complete freedom from all suffering,
sila, or moral discipline, is considered to
be the basic foundation upon which the
other two aspects of concentration and
wisdom can be developed. Without
proper morality, right concentration
cannot be developed and without right
concentration, wisdom cannot be
developed.

28. Sila
In Buddhist teachings, there are
different codes of moral discipline for
the lay community and for the
monastic community. For the lay
community, the minimum code of
morality expected of them is what is
known as Pancha-sila, or Five
precepts, which they are expected to
practise on a regular basis. The five
precepts are the basic code of moral
discipline

29. FIVE PERCEPTS

30. FIVE PERCEPTS

31. Pancha Sila

32. Thank You