The Changing Role of the Precepts in Soto Zen Practice

12/10/2025 1h 20min

                    The Changing Role of the Precepts in Soto Zen Practice

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ADZG 1255 ADZG Sunday Morning Scholar Talk by Stephan Licha
Chapters
(00:00:00) - A Taste of Ancient Dragon Zen Gate(00:00:33) - The Precepts of Japanese Zen Buddhism(00:02:15) - The Role of Precepts in Buddhism(00:06:44) - Buddhist precepts, the Vinaya and Bodhisatt(00:13:12) - Bodhisattva Vinaya Vows in China(00:18:20) - Japan's Pure Mahayana Buddhism(00:23:23) - Bodhisattva precept ordination in China(00:33:02) - The Soto School and the Precepts(00:39:36) - How would your Chinese ancestors have been bound by the Indian Vinaya(00:43:26) - The Precepts in Zen(00:50:21) - Brian O'Brien(00:50:35) - The Presence of the Precepts in an Initiation(00:58:19) - How did Dogen get the 16 Bodhisattva Precept(01:02:42) - Self-Ordination in Buddhism(01:04:41) - Questions about Zazen and Meditation(01:10:13) - Zazen and Meditation in Early Zen(01:17:37) - A Bodhisattva Prayer