Taking Vows
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Advice about the benefits of taking vows, for example, the five lay vows and the eight Mahayana precepts.
Advice on the Diamond Cutter Sutra, a Mahayana sutra which helps us to actualize wisdom and bodhicitta quickly, along with other realizations.
In this teaching Lama Yeshe advises the importance of pratimoksha vows and responds to students' questions about the five lay vows.
Advice for students who have broken their vows or stopped their daily practice commitments.
The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives a commentary on and confers the eight Mahayanaprecepts
The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
The Diamond Cutter Sutra is a discourse on the Buddhist concept of emptiness or “Wisdom Gone Beyond.”