Venerable Master Hsuan Hua - Five Precepts

I decided to redo this video with captions. Before Buddha entered into Nirvana, he told Ananda that Buddhists should treat precepts as their teacher (以戒為師). Therefore, I felt that the previous version without text is considered as incomplete. Here we go with an enclosed caption in the video!

0:00 Intro
0:11 Verse for Opening a Sutra
0:30 Don't Miss the Chance to Receive the Five Precepts
3:35 Who are Lay People
3:45 What are the Five Precepts
3:59 What are the Ten Good Deeds
4:26 What is Loose Speech
4:59 What are the Ten Good Deeds
6:32 The Basic Rules to be Observed by Buddhists
9:56 Is Smoking Allowed?
12:22 The Importance of Receiving the Five Precepts
15:41 The Benefits of Receiving the Five Precepts
23:19 Is There no Benefit in Studying the Buddhadharma?
25:19 Will 'not Receiving Precepts' Give you True Freedom?
27:09 In Learning Buddhadharma, We must Learn Precepts, Concentration, and Wisdom
28:07 What If I Break the Precepts?
29:06 The Story of an Old Cultivator
30:16 Manjushri Bodhisattva's Precious Pearl
31:39 Don't Act As Your Own Defense Attorney
33:40 What are Pure Precepts?
34:47 Verse of Transference

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◎ What are the five precepts?

They are the precepts against killing, stealing, engaging in sexual misconduct, lying, and taking intoxicants. People who have received the five precepts are called lay people.
　
◎ The importance of receiving the five precepts

If one can uphold the five precepts and practice the ten good deeds, one will ascend to the heavens.

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Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (Traditional Chinese: 宣化上人; Hanyu Pinyin: Xuān Huà Shàng Rén; Vietnamese: Hòa Thượng Tuyên Hóa) was an important figure in Western Mahayana Buddhism.

Master Hsuan Hua founded the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA), a well-known Buddhist organisation based in USA, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He also built the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, one of the first Buddhist monasteries in USA, and established the Buddhist Text Translation Society, which works on the translation of scriptures into English.

He is credited as the first Chinese Buddhist Zen master to introduce Orthodox Buddhism to the West, as well as he also ordained the first Buddhist monks in the United States.

Master Hsuan Hua was the Ninth Patriarch of the Wei-Yang Chan (Chinese Zen) School of Buddhism and received the Wei-Yang lineage's Dharma Seal from the Venerable Master Hsu Yun.

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