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Summary of Speeches at the Bhikshuni Congress: Day 2
Session Four, Day Two: History of the Vinaya Lineages Bhikkhu Sujato, Abbot of the Santi Forest Monastery, Sydney, Australia “The Origin of the Three Existing Vinaya Lineages: Theravada, Dharmaguptaka, and Mulasarvastivada” Indian ordination lineages did not develop...
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Conference Report on Bhikshuni Ordination Lineages
Questions about What Is a Vow
Brief Review We have been discussing the fundamental elements that we need before taking the bodhisattva vows. We spoke about the foundations in the lam-rim, the graded stages of the path, and we spoke about the process and meditation for building up a bodhichitta motivation....
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Explanation of Bodhichitta Actions for Training & Vows
Elaboration of Bodhisattva Vows 1 to 3
Introduction to the Root Bodhisattva Vows When we take the bodhisattva vows, we are promising to refrain from two sets of acts. Although these are usually referred to as the root bodhisattva vows and the secondary bodhisattva vows in our Western languages, those are not the...
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Explanation of Bodhichitta Actions for Training & Vows
Advice on Keeping the Kalachakra Vows
[Clarification of His Holiness' answers by Dr. Berzin are included within square brackets.] The Vow Not to Lose Seminal Energy-Drops Dr. Berzin: Many Westerners are married, what about the Kalachakra close bond of not losing (mi-nyams) seminal energy-drops (khu-ba)? What lay...
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Question Sessions with the Dalai Lama about Kalachakra
Renouncing the Sufferings of Samsara
The Sufferings of the Higher Planes of Existence An actual spiritual person, or Dharma practitioner, is someone who is working to be able to benefit future lifetimes and beyond. Such a person then, on an initial level, would follow the ethics of restraining themselves from the...
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Commentary on “The Foundation for Good Qualities” – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
The Ritual for Taking the Bodhisattva Vows
Taking the Vows for Involved Bodhichitta, Engaged Bodhichitta (19) Except through the vows that are the very nature of engaged bodhichitta, your pure aspiration will never come to increase. Therefore, with the wish to progress toward aspired full enlightenment, take them...
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Commentary on “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” – Dr. Berzin
18 Close-Bonding Practices
Point 6 The sixth point consists of 18 practices that will bond us closely to this attitude training. The seventh point contains twenty-two points for cleansing and training our attitudes. These are long lists, but they’re also wonderful guidelines for how to be less selfish...
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Commentary on “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
Summary of Speeches at the Bhikshuni Congress: Day 3
Morning Session, Day Three: Welcome and Keynote Speeches Welcoming Speech Dr. Roland Salchow, State Councilor of the Department of Science and Research, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany Bishop Maria Jepsen, First Female Bishop of the Lutheran Church, North...
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Conference Report on Bhikshuni Ordination Lineages
Elaboration of Bodhisattva Vows 4 to 10
Review We’ve been speaking about the bodhisattva vows, and we have taken a look at their role on the Buddhist path. We’ve seen that in order to take them, we need to have already developed ourselves along the Buddhist way through the various stages of the lam-rim, the graded...
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Explanation of Bodhichitta Actions for Training & Vows
22 Points to Train In
Point 7 Point seven, the last point, consists of 22 points to train in for cleansing our attitudes: 1. Do all yogas with one Whatever we do, we should do it in order to be able to help others. An example often used in India, where people frequently have worms, is the...
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Commentary on “Seven Point Mind Training” – Dr. Berzin
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