Precepts Application

1. Ceremony and Guiding Teacher or Local Abbot

Ceremony Date & Location *

Note: If you are applying for any Precepts Ceremony please follow this link to pay for the document processing 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

Gender *

3. Precepts Information

Select a Single Category *

Five Precepts—Lay Practitioner (Upāsaka) Eight Precepts - Postulant/Oblate (Anagarika) Ten Precepts—Novitiate (Sramanera) Fifty Eight Precepts—Brahmajala Priest (Bodhisattva Saṃnyāsin) Dharmagupta Precepts -Bhiksu/Bhiksuni

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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