八はっ戒かい

noun

the eight precepts

Buddhist term: the five precepts plus three additional rules (abstaining from luxurious beds, self-adornment/entertainment, and eating after noon). Often observed by laypeople on special observance days.

See also: 五戒

• 仏ぶっ教きょう徒との中なかには、特とく定ていの日ひに八はっ戒かいを守まもる人ひともいる。

  Some Buddhists observe the eight precepts on specific days.

• 八はっ戒かいは在ざい家け信しん者じゃが修しゅ行ぎょうのために受うける戒かい律りつの一ひとつだ。

  The eight precepts are one set of precepts that lay believers undertake for practice.