The bodhisattva precepts: Part 1
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience 
Mar 27, 2015 After generating engaged bodhicitta, a desire arises to take the bodhisattva vows and engage in the bodhisattva practices. Part of a series of teachings on The Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience, a lamrim text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, the first Panchen Lama.
- Commentary on the bodhisattva precepts
- The sources of the precepts
- The 18 root precepts
- The four binding factors needed for complete transgression of a precept
- The first 16 auxiliary precepts
- Discussion on wrong views
- Why assisted suicide or euthanasia is a wrong view
Easy Path 43: Bodhisattva precepts part 1 (download)
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
