Updated 15 April 2024
Buddhist Precepts in Theravada Buddhism
Theravada Buddhism offers several different sets of Precepts. These Precepts have individual pages on the BGKT Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) website.
Venerable Mahathera Matara Sri Nanarama explains in The Seven Stages of Purification and The Insight Knowledges on page 5
Male and female lay-devotees have five precepts as a permanent standard of virtue in their everyday life. If they are more enthusiastic, they can undertake and keep the “eight precepts with livelihood as the eighth,” or the ten lay precepts, or the eight precepts recommended as the special observance for Uposatha days.
Ajivatthamaka Sila (Eight Precepts with Right Livelihood as the Eighth)
Atthangika Uposatha Sila (Eight Uposatha Precepts)
Expanded Ajivatthamaka Sila (Eight Lifetime Precepts)
Atthangika Uposatha Sila (Eight Uposatha Precepts)
Bodhicari Precepts (Twelve Precepts)
Dasa Sila (Ten Precepts)
Dasa Sila (Ten Precepts ending with wrong view/miccha-ditthiya)
Navanga Uposatha Sila (Nine Uposatha Precepts)
Panca Sila (The Five Precepts)
Bibliography
Articles
“The development and use of the Eight Precepts for lay practitioners, Upasakas and Upasikas in Theravada Buddhism in the West”, Jacquetta Gomes, Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 5(1) (May 2004) 47-63. (ISSN 1463-9947). DOI:10.1080/1463994042000249535
Available at https://www.tandfonline.com/
Books
Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) and Ketumati Buddhist Vihara. Requirements and Ceremonies for the Five Precepts (Panca Sila), The Eight Precepts with Right Livelihood as the Eighth (Ajivatthamaka Sila), Dhamma Teachers Certificate, issued by the Buddhist Group of Kendal (Theravada) and Ketumati Buddhist Vihara at Wesak 2006).2006.
Available as the Appendix to Introducing Buddhism at https://www-old.budaedu.org/en/
https://www-old.budaedu.org/book-img/CoverL/EN074.jpg
http://ftp.budaedu.org/ebooks/pdf/EN074.pdf
The May 2006 edition available at https://books.google.com/
The May 2006 edition available at
https://archive.org/details/requirementscere00unse
The February 2010 updated edition available at
https://archive.org/details/requirements-ceremonies-buddhistgroupofkendal-bgkt-ketumatibuddhistvihara
BPS Buddhist Publication Society Kandy Sri Lanka
BPS Books
http://www.bps.lk/library_books.php
The Seven Stages of Purification and The Insight Knowledges. Venerable Matara Sri Nanarama Mahathera. 1993 (2nd edition). (Kandy Sri Lanka, BPS Buddhist Publication Society). (BP506S). (ISBN 955-24-0059-7) (ISBN 978-955-24-0059-9).
https://www.bps.lk/olib/bp/bp506s_Nyanarama_Seven-Stages-of-Purification.pdf