| | Buddhist view of marriage -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | While Buddhist practice varies considerably among its various schools, (The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)) Marriage is one of the few concepts specifically mentioned in the context of (additional info and facts about Sila) Sila (Buddhist behavior discipline). |
 | | One of the five precepts that even lay practitioners are expected to follow to the best of their abilities - specifically the third - is a promise to abstain from (additional info and facts about sexual misconduct) sexual misconduct. |
 | | One of those is that (Extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations) adultery (as opposed to polygamic marriages or (Two people of the same sex who live together as a family) same-sex marriages) is considered wrong. |
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