Precepts / Vinaya
In Buddhism, a person can receive one precept, two precepts, three precepts, four precepts, or five precepts. He can also receive eight precepts but he is not eligible to receive the ten precepts, as those are reserved for shramaneras (novice monks) and shramanerikas (novice nuns). But you can take Bodhisattva precepts, the ten major and forty-eight minor precepts.
Why Should We Receive and Uphold the Five Precepts？
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1. The guardian gods will get angry and leave, while the evil spirits and demons will gather around this person like flies clinging to rotten flesh;
Lecture by Venerable Master Hsuan-Hua
Question: After receiving the lay bodhisattva precepts, eating lifeless eggs and not reciting the precepts for half a month, what sin is committed?
Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, abstain from eating meat That fool claims to be a teacher of the precepts and says that people are allowed to eat meat in the Vinaya precepts, and also slanders me by saying that the Tathāgata himself eat meat, then that fool will become a great sinner and will fall into a place where there is no...
Transmissions of Lay Bodhisattva Precepts and 42 Hands & Eyes
We sentient beings all rejoice in the fragrance, but don't get fragrance. Why? Because of not keeping the precepts, indulge all the time. Heavenly people, with the achievement of merit, therefore, there is always a fragrant fragrance on the body, when people smell it, there is a cool feeling. When the celestial beings don't spread the fragrance,...
Lectures by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
