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The Bodhisattva Precepts (Skt. bodhisattva-śīla or bodhisattva-saṃvāra, traditional Chinese: 菩薩戒; ; pinyin: Púsà Jiè, Japanese: bosatsukai; Tibetan: byang chub sems dpa’i sdom pa) are a set of ethical trainings (śīla) used in Mahāyāna Buddhism to advance a practitioner along the path to becoming a bodhisattva. These sets of "restrains" (saṃvāra) are the main ethical code in Mahāyāna Buddhism and as thus also sometimes called "Mahāyāna precepts" (Ch: 大乘戒).

Traditionally, monastics observed the basic moral code in Buddhism, the monastic prātimokṣa or five precepts for laypersons, but in the Mahāyāna tradition, Buddhist monastics and laypersons commonly observe the Bodhisattva Precepts as well. The Bodhisattva Precepts are associated with the bodhisattva vow to save all beings and with bodhicitta.

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Keeping the Precepts

Serial: BZ-00177A

Ocku Bhikku, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Precepts, Intuition, New Year, War, Vow, Anger, Interdependence, Passions,...
Dec 14 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Suzuki-rôshi Almost Drowning

Serial: BZ-00175

From "Not Always So", Rohatsu Day 5

Suzuki Roshi, Attachment, Happiness, Teacher-and-Student, Perfect Wisdom, Bell,...
Dec 06 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Aspects of Practice: Metta Sutta

Serial: BZ-00459

Class 1 of 3

Birth-and-Death, Peace, Chanting, Enemies, Anger, Evil, Precepts, Composure,...
Nov 07 2002
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Not Always So Class

Karma, Suzuki Roshi, Offering, Anger, Teacher-and-Student, Demons, Continuous...
Oct 30 2002
Tassajara

15 Sutras from the Old Way: Kesaputta and Meghiya Sutta (Dharma Relationships)

Serial: BZ-00456

Clas 3 of 5

Cultivation, Happiness, Equanimity, Attachment, Intimacy, confusion, Karma,...
Sep 26 2002
3
Berkeley Zen Center

15 Sutras from the Old Way: Those of Kesaputta from Anguttara Nikaya

Serial: BZ-00455

Class 2 of 5

confusion, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Evil, Nirvana, Cultivation, Anger,...
Sep 19 2002
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Seven Principles for Preventing Decline

Serial: SF-00935

Dhammapada, 9/11, we are not well, cause of great peace, Huey Johnson, the soldiers will have their way, dogs of war, Dalai Lama, pinpoint causes, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel',...

Nirvana Sutra, Precepts, Daily Life, Religion, Interdependence, Renunciation,...
Sep 15 2002
Green Gulch Farm

Suramgama Sutra

Serial: BZ-00478

Class 4 of 4

Demons, Cultivation, Karma, Attachment, confusion, Precepts, Skandas, Greed,...
Sep 12 2002
4
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha Through Ordinary Living

Buddha, Practice, Precepts
Aug 25 2002

Faith in Buddhanature

Serial: BZ-00156A

Saturday Lecture

Faith, Buddha Nature, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Separation, Culture, Composure, Ego,...
Aug 17 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Do You Like Zazen

Serial: BZ-00155A

Lecture

Precepts, Building, Priest, Peace, Posture, American
Jul 27 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Sunday Lecture

Serial: SF-00981

Buddhist culture rooting in California, purpose of ZC, banana in his back pocket, Puccini, motherhood, livelihood, Buddhahood, statuary invoking our higher purpose, Bodhisattva...

Bodhisattva Precepts, Ceremony, Precepts, Suzuki Roshi, Perfect Wisdom, Three...
Jul 21 2002
Green Gulch Farm

July 2002 talk, Serial No. 03071

Samadhi, Practice, Precepts
Jul 2002

How to Practice as a Lay Person

Serial: BZ-00152B

Saturday Lecture

Lay Practice, Precepts, Big Mind, Lay, Bodhisattva Precepts, Daily Life, Monastic...
Jun 29 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

How to Draw Sound From the Bell

Serial: BZ-00152A

Sesshin Day 5

Bell, Bell, Precepts, Soto Zen, Chanting, Mindfulness, Practice Period, Doubt, Lay,...
Jun 23 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Lay Ordination

Serial: BZ-00149B

Saturday Lecture

Lay Ordination, Precepts, Ordination, Buddha Nature, Bodhisattva Way, Buddha...
Jun 15 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

BZC Precepts

Serial: BZ-00148B

Lecture

Teacher-and-Student, Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Intimacy, Priest-and-Lay,...
Jun 01 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen and Modern Science: Many Similarities

Serial: BZ-00148A

Lecture 

Intuition, Duality, Precepts, Peace
May 25 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00448

Class 4 of 4

Precepts, Passions, Conversation, Building, Peace, Anger, Fox, Politics, Silence,...
May 09 2002
4
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00447

Class 3 of 4

Right Speech, Conversation, Precepts, Silence, Happiness, New Year, Culture,...
May 02 2002
3
Berkeley Zen Center

Ordination: What it Means

Serial: BZ-00145B

Lecture

Monastic Practice, Ordination, Priest, Precepts, Vinaya, Vow, Mill Valley,...
Apr 20 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00446

Class 2 of 4

Precepts, Right Speech, Obstacles, Liberation, Heart Sutra, Observe, Passions, Bell,...
Apr 18 2002
2
Berkeley Zen Center

The Precepts

Serial: BZ-00445

Class 1 of 4

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Ordination, Lineage, Observe, Vow, Transmission,...
Apr 11 2002
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Noble Truths: Eightfold Path

Serial: BZ-00444

Class 4 of 4

Right Speech, Right Effort, Happiness, Concentration, Four Noble Truths, Mindfulness...
Apr 04 2002
4
Berkeley Zen Center

First Pure Mind Precept: Not Killing

Serial: BZ-00142B

Saturday Lecture

Non-violence, Two Truths, Precepts, Offering, Discrimination, Culture, Birth-and-...
Mar 23 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Four Noble Truths: Causes of Suffering

Serial: BZ-00469

Class 2 of 4

Karma, Birth-and-Death, Attachment, Six Realms, Precepts, Renewal, Nirvana,...
Mar 21 2002
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenth Precept

Serial: BZ-00140B

"Shoes Outside the Door", Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Richard Baker, Religion, Sangha, Birth-and-Death, Buddha Nature, Intuition...
Mar 09 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Buddha's Parinirvana

Serial: BZ-00139A

One-Day Sitting

Parinirvana, Nirvana, Birth-and-Death, Obstacles, Precepts, Liberation, Buddha Nature...
Feb 16 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

No Fault-Finding--Sixth Precept

Serial: BZ-00062A

Skillful Criticism, Saturday Lecture

Precepts, Precepts, Big Mind, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Oneness, Mahayana, Buddha Nature...
Feb 02 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Forgiveness

Serial: BZ-00061B

Saturday Lecture

Forgiveness, Anger, Forgiveness, Equanimity, Evil, Attachment, Precepts, Politics,...
Jan 26 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Sixth and Seventh Precepts and Contention

Serial: BZ-00066B

One-Day Sitting

Precepts, Anger, Precepts, Separation, Subject-and-Object, Attachment, Patience,...
Jan 12 2002
Berkeley Zen Center

Egolessness

Serial: BZ-00063B

Rohatsu Day 6

Ego, Precepts, Ego, Anger, Chanting, Teacher-and-Student, Patience, Vinaya, Posture,...
Dec 07 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Suzuki Roshi

Serial: BZ-00063A

Rohatsu Day 5

Ego, Precepts, Posture, Sangha, Lay, Practice Period, Duality, Non-duality, Oneness...
Dec 06 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Blue Cliff Record: Case #86

Serial: BZ-00064B

Rohatsu Day 4

BCR-86, Meal Serving, Samadhi, Ego, Big Mind, Addiction, Chanting, Precepts, Religion...
Dec 05 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Zazen

Serial: BZ-00064A

Rohatsu Day 3

Zazen, Concentration, Posture, Right Effort, Mindfulness, Samadhi, Enemies,...
Dec 04 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Forms

Serial: BZ-00095A

One Day Sitting

Precepts, Repentance, Soto Zen, Observe, Lay Ordination, Birth-and-Death, Fasting,...
Nov 18 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Pilgrimage and Victims of Violence

Serial: BZ-00094B

Lecture

War, Four Noble Truths, Commitment, Enemies, Culture, Non-violence, American,...
Nov 10 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Dogen and Plum Blossoms

Serial: BZ-00094A

Saturday Lecture

Dogen, Buddha Nature, Big Mind, Dragons, Priest-and-Lay, Buddha Ancestors,...
Nov 03 2001
Berkeley Zen Center

Aspects of Practice: Suzuki Roshi

Serial: BZ-00477

Class 1 of 4

War, Bell, Priest, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Precepts, Posture, Branching...
Oct 04 2001
1
Berkeley Zen Center

Desire Without Attachment: Zen Intimacy

Buddha, Precepts, Practice
Mar 29 2001

Mind, Nature, and Sacred Connection

Practice, Precepts, Bowing
Mar 28 2001

March 23rd, 2001, Serial No. 03012

Precepts, Vinaya, Passions
Mar 23 2001

February 16th, 2001, Serial No. 03001

Samadhi, Precepts, Bell
Feb 16 2001

February 12th, 2001, Serial No. 02999

Precepts, Zazen, Practice
Feb 12 2001

Interview with Sojun Mel Weitsman

Serial: BZ-00068

Interview 2 of 3

Transmission, Dharma Transmission, Priest, Precepts, Priest-and-Lay, Ordination, Lay...
Jan 05 2001
2
Berkeley Zen Center

Tenzo Kyokun Class

Practice Period, Attachment, Offering, Letting Go, Bodhisattva Way, Emptiness,...
Nov 28 2000
Green Gulch Farm

Wednesday Lecture

Precepts, Equanimity, Bodhisattva Precepts, Enemies, Ceremony, Attachment, Chanting,...
Sep 13 2000
Green Gulch Farm

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Three Treasures, Lay, Sangha, Mahayana, Sanctuary, Addiction, Hate,...
Aug 22 2000
Unknown

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

Serial: BZ-00085B

Unity in Diversity, Diversity in Unity, Saturday Lecture

Sandokai, Branching Streams, Subject-and-Object, Diversity, Bell, Oneness, Precepts,...
Aug 19 2000
Berkeley Zen Center

Women Ancestors Class

Precepts, Bodhisattva Precepts, Lay, Ceremony, Silence, Freedom, Practice Period,...
Aug 15 2000
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