Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 20-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering guides participants through the live ceremony of taking the Eight Mahāyāna Precepts at Buddha House. Before the vows are given, he pauses to stress that motivation is paramount — these precepts must be received with the Mahāyāna intention to benefit all sentient beings, grounded in faith in the lama and the teachings. He then leads the group through three recitations of the vow text, instructing that the vows are formally received at the end of the third recitation. Throughout, participants are guided to visualize receiving the precepts directly from Chenrezig himself. The ceremony closes with Geshe-la conferring the mantra of pure morality, recited twenty-one times by each participant, and a reminder that the vows are held until the following morning.
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File: 3. Day 2 Eight mahayana precepts ceremony.mp3
Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering
Collection: z Teachings DTL (Geshe Pema Tsering)
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~344
So then so then just about to give the vows themselves on page eighteen. So then, Geiselaj, then then then is then is to emphasize the motivation. That’s the main thing is the motivation. So then we we must get it this vows with the Mahāyāna motivation, with the motivation of benefiting our sentient beings. And, yes, I was then saying that because of our of our faith in in the lama and in the teachings, then we we we we take we take then these these vows.
We are how to say? We actually realize these vows of the Mahāyāna. So then one one then thinks that one is is actually taking those vows from from from Chernizig himself from Ahold Deshvara himself. So now we repeat after. So now we’ll repeat again a second time.
So then now we’re gonna read a third time at by the end of this third recitation, when we read the very last words, which reads, at the very bottom of the prayer, then we we make that we have received these vows. And then Geshe-la is going to say, and when we we answer him, like so. Okay? I I will say the words after him. So then shall I ask them now going to going to read the the part of of the ritual which refers to to the vows that are to be kept until tomorrow morning.
So now, Gesha is going to give us the the mantra of of pure morality. So now each one each one of us recites it twenty one times. Yeah.