The category of “transgression” (Tib. ltung byed; Skt. pāyantika; Ch. 波逸底迦) includes “transgressions requiring forfeiture” (Tib. spong ba’i ltung byed; Skt. naihsargikā-pāyantika) and “simple atonements” (Tib. ltung byed ’ba’ zhig pa; Skt. śuddha-prayāścittaka).

The third most severe of the five types of offenses a monk can incur. There are 120 different types of transgression, thirty requiring forfeiture and ninety simple transgressions.