Precepts Application

1. Ceremony and Guiding Teacher or Local Abbot

Ceremony Date & Location *

Note: If you are applying for an Online Precepts Ceremony please follow this link to pay for the document mailing fees.

Select Your Guiding Teacher from the dropdown list *

If you don't know who your Guiding Teacher is select your local Zen Center Abbot *

Zen Center/group you are affiliated with *

2. Personal Information

Name (exactly as you want it to appear on your precepts certificate) *

First

Last

Birthdate (you must be at least 18 years of age to take precepts) *

Email *

Address *

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Line 2

City

State

Zip Code

Country

3. Precepts Information

Select a Single Category *

Five Precepts—Lay Practitioner (Ú Ba Sae, UBS) Ten Precepts—Novice Priest (Haeng Ja Nim, HJN) Sixteen Precepts—Zen Priest (Sunim, SN) Seventy–Four Precepts—Bodhisattva Priest (Bosal Sunim, BSN)

State briefly why you have decided to take these precepts at this time and what is your intended goal? *

Date/location of last precepts in the Five Mountain Zen Order, if any *

If you have an existing Dharma Name enter it here *

Name and Title of Teacher Granting you this Dharma Name *

Dharma Name Translation *

Signature

By Typing in your Full Legal name you are electronically signing this Online application *

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