eight categories of precepts of individual emancipation
eight sets of individual liberation: 1) the eight fasting vows, taken for one day only; 2) and 3) the five vows of laymen and laywomen; 4) and 5) the vows of male and female novices; 6) additional vows taken by probationer nuns as a step towards becoming full nuns; 7) the discipline of the full nun, bhikshuni; 8) that of the full monk, bhikshu. [EPK]