His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a teaching for the full moon day of the Great Prayer Festival, broadcasting live from his residence in Dharmshala. His Holiness recited his own introductory prayer before the teaching, and finished by leading his virtual audience through the visualisation and repetition of prayers and verses for generating bodhichitta and taking the bodhisattva vow, saying that bodhichitta is the essence of the dharma.