Editing Sin (section)

==Buddhism==
{{Main|Buddhist views on sin}}
There are a few differing Buddhist views on sin. American [[Zen]] author [[Brad Warner]] states that in Buddhism there is no concept of sin at all.<ref>{{cite book| last =Warner| first =Brad| author-link =Brad Warner| title =[[Hardcore Zen|Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies & the Truth About Reality]]| publisher =Wisdom Publications| year=2003| pages =144| isbn = 0-86171-380-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last =Warner| first =Brad| author-link =Brad Warner| title=[[Sex, Sin, and Zen |Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between]]| publisher =New World Library| year =2010| pages =72| isbn = 978-1-57731-910-8 }}</ref> The Buddha Dharma Education Association also expressly states "The idea of sin or original sin has no place in Buddhism."<ref>{{cite web|title=Buddhism: Major Differences|url=http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/snapshot01.htm|publisher=Buddha Dharma Education Association|access-date=May 13, 2013}}</ref>

[[ethnology|Ethnologist]] [[Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf]] explained, "In Buddhist thinking the whole universe, men as well as gods, are subject to a reign of law. Every action, good or bad, has an inevitable and automatic effect in a long chain of causes, an effect that is independent of the will of any deity. Even though this may leave no room for the concept of 'sin' in the sense of an act of defiance against the authority of a personal god, Buddhists speak of 'sin' when referring to transgressions against the universal moral code."<ref>{{cite journal|last=von Fürer-Haimendorf|first=Christoph|year=1974|title=The Sense of Sin in Cross-Cultural Perspective|journal = Man|volume = New Series 9.4|pages=539–556}}</ref>

However, there are five heinous crimes in Buddhism that bring immediate disaster through [[karma|karmic process]].<ref name=Obeyesekere>{{citation|title=The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology |author= Gananath Obeyesekere|year=1990|publisher=[[University of Chicago]]|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-nLv_IiMTA4C&pg=PA305|isbn=978-0-226-61599-8}}</ref> These five crimes are collectively referred to as [[Anantarika-karma]] in [[Theravada Buddhism]]<ref name=Obeyesekere/> and ''pañcānantarya'' (Pāli) in the [[Mahayana]] ''Sutra Preached by the Buddha on the Total Extinction of the Dharma'',<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3lHag-M0quUC&pg=PA128|title= A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms: With Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=1995|isbn=978-0700703555|page=128|author-link1=Lewis Hodous|last1=Hodous|first1=Lewis|author-link2=William Edward Soothill|last2=Soothill|first2=William Edward}}</ref> The five crimes or sins are:<ref>{{cite book |last=Rām Garg |first=Gaṅgā |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofh0000garg/page/433 |title=Encyclopaedia of the Hindu World |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1992 |isbn=9788170223757 |page=433 |url-access=registration}}</ref>
# Injuring a [[Buddhahood|Buddha]]
# Killing an [[Arhat (Buddhism)|Arhat]]
# Creating [[schism (religion)|schism]] in the society of [[Sangha (Buddhism)|Sangha]]
# [[Matricide]]
# [[Patricide]]