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The Ten Precepts of Taoism were outlined in a short text that appears in Dunhuang manuscripts (DH31, 32), the Scripture of the Ten Precepts (Shíjiè jīng 十戒經). The precepts are the classical rules of medieval Taoism as applied to practitioners attaining the rank of Disciple of Pure Faith (qīngxīn dìzǐ 清心弟子). They first appeared in the Scripture on Setting the Will on Wisdom (Zhìhuì dìngxīn jīng 智慧定心經) (DZ325).[1]
There is one rule that is divided into Ten Precepts. That rule is the Tao (or Dao).
- ^ Livia Kohn, Cosmos & Community: The Ethical Dimension of Daoism (Three Pines Press, 2004), pp 185-6.