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  • Practice Text and Oral Transmission of the Eight Mahayana Precepts (2020)

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    Download the text updated in 2020 for taking the eight Mahayana precepts: Ritual for Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts

    Oral Transmission of the Eight Mahayana Precepts

    On the merit-multiplying day of the full moon of Saka Dawa in 2020, Lama Zopa Rinpoche conferred the eight Mahayana precepts on a small group of students in his room at Kopan Monastery, Nepal. At that time, Rinpoche also gave special permission for others to receive the lineage of the eight Mahayana precepts from him by listening to the video recording and repeating after him the words of the following prayers from the Ritual for Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts:

    • Prayer for Taking the Precepts
    • Commitment Prayer to Keep the Precepts
    • Mantra of Pure Morality
    • Prayer to Keep Pure Morality

    Download a transcript of the video here and read along as you listen to the video (this will make it easier for you to do the ritual together with Lama Zopa Rinpoche).

    Please be aware that by taking the lineage of the eight Mahayana precepts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Rinpoche will become one of your gurus.

    Note: You can either take the lineage of the eight Mahayana precepts from this video or the video in "Chapter 4. Actual Ceremony for Taking the Precepts" below.