The fourteen sins of slandering the Law are the following:

1. haughtiness, or kyōman (to be conceited and to think one has understood what one has not understood);
2. neglect, or kedai (to be lazy and to be absorbed in trivial things);
3. self-centeredness, or kriga (to act only for selfish ends);
4. shallowness, or senshiki (to look only at the surface of things, not trying to grasp their essence);
5. sensuality, or jakuyoku (to be deeply attached to the desires of the senses and to material things);
6. irrationality, or fuge (to interpret everything according to one’s own limited viewpoint and to not understand important points);
7. unbelief, or fushin (not to believe in the sutra and to vilify it because of one’s shallow understanding);
8. sullenness, or hinshuku (to frown upon the sutra and to show ill feeling toward it);
9. doubting, or giwaku (to harbor doubts of the truth of the sutra and to hesitate to believe in it);
10. slander, or hibō (to speak ill of the sutra) ;
11. scorning goodness, or kyōzen (to despise those who read and recite, write and keep the sutra);
12. hating goodness, or zōzen (to hate those who practice the above mentioned goodness);
13. jealousy of goodness, or shitsuzen (to envy those who practice this goodness);
14. grudging goodness, or konzen (to grudge those who practice this goodness).