{"id":132,"date":"2010-04-05T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-05-25T09:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:52:58","slug":"criteria-for-judging-the-unwholesomeness-of-actions-in-the-texts-of-theravaada-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/05\/criteria-for-judging-the-unwholesomeness-of-actions-in-the-texts-of-theravaada-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwholesomeness of Actions in Therav\u0101da"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 2 1995<\/h6>\n<h3>Criteria for Judging the Unwholesomeness of Actions in the Texts of Therav\u0101da Buddhism<\/h3>\n<p>Peter Harvey<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Sunderland<\/p>\n<p>After briefly reviewing the role of ethics on the path in Therav\u0101da texts, the article moves on to discuss the various criteria for distinguishing between wholesome and unwholesome actions. It then explores the gradation of unwholesomeness of actions according to several variables, and then applies this to wholesome actions, here highlighting the importance of right view. Finally, the question of the relation between precept-taking and the moral worth of actions is assessed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/Criteria-for-Judging-the-Unwholesomeness-of-Actions-in-the-Texts-of-Theravaada-Buddhism.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criteria for Judging the Unwholesomeness of Actions in the Texts of Theravaada Buddhism<\/p>\n<p>By Peter Harvey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2402],"tags":[2592],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-02-1995","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-28","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}