Recommended resources for precept study
- NOTE – the resource by Lana on receiving the precepts has recently been corrected and will be uploaded here soon. the old version had a few mistakes including a mis-atribution to Keizan, something that was clearly Dogen!
Books
- Living by Vow: A Practical Introduction to Eight Essential Zen Chants and Texts – Shohaku Okumura
- Invoking Reality: Moral and Ethical Teachings of Zen – John Daido Loori
- Faces of Compassion: Classic Bodhisattva Archetypes and Their Modern Expression – An Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism – Taigen Dan Leighton
- Being Upright: Zen Meditation and the Bodhisattva Precepts – Reb Anderson
Teishos, talks and commentary by some of our senior teachers and others
- Commentary on the Six Paramitas – a series of commentaries on the 6 paramitas in PDF format by Mokuho Guy Mercier (hosted on the IZAUK Website)
- What is a Bodhisattva – Mokuho Guy Mercier
- English Translation of the Kyojukaimon – Lecture material from Rev. Shohaku Okumura
- Evolution of the Precepts – Study Material for the 2008 National Conference of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association
- Talks on the Precepts given by Nara Roshi in France 2018 Ojukai
Teisho (talks) and commentary by UK leaders
Teishos by Hōsei Lana Berrington
Teishos by Seiho Chris Preist
- The Four Bodhisattva Vows – Commentary by Seiho Chris Preist
MP3 talks by Seiho Chris Preist
- Zen and Ethics
- The Precepts, Part 1 – The Three Pure Precepts
- The Precepts, Part 2 – The Ten Bodhisattva Precepts
- The Four Bodhisattva Vows
- The Four Bodhisattva Vows – Absolute & Relative Perspectives
- The Bodhisattva’s Four Methods of Guidance
