The Peaceful Prison
In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Teachings
Taking Vows
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
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Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments > Taking Vows
Abandoning Harmful Actions
Benefits of Taking Vows
Morality Is Like the Earth
Motivation for Eight Mahayana Precepts
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Broken Vows and Commitments
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
Praises and Requests to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Lineage Lamas > His Holiness the Dalai Lama > Praises and Requests to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A Praise to His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Address to His Holiness the Dalai Lama
For His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Request for Kalachakra Initiation
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Eight Mahayana Precepts (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Chapters:
The Direct and Unmistaken Method
The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
Chapters:
The Direct and Unmistaken Method
Translator’s Preface
The Benefits of Protecting the Eight Mahayana Precepts
The Way in Which the Mahayana Ordination Is Taken
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Motivation for Mahayana Ordination
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
Topics:
Buddhist Practices > Vows and Commitments
In Praise of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Praise and request to His Holiness the Dalai Lama given at the long-life puja offered to His Holiness in September 1996, after the Kalachakra initiation in Sydney, Australia