Jukai | Lay Ordination Ceremony
On Wednesday, May 8, Everyday Zen will hold a Jukai ceremony for lay ordainees. During this traditional ceremony, each student will receive and acknowledge the sixteen bodhisattva precepts as an ongoing path in their lives.
Ten students will be receiving the precepts from their teacher. Each ordainee will also receive a Dharma name, simple robe (rakusu), and lineage papers tracing their position in our Soto Zen family as it comes down to us from the time of the Buddha. Here are the teachers offering jukai and the students receiving the precepts from them:
- Alan Block: Linda Ostro
- Chris Fortin: Patricia Redmond
- Jaune Evans: Barbara Bernier, Irene Borger
- Kathie Fischer: China Galland
- Norman Fischer: Betty Mooney, Girija Brilliant
- Norman with Sue Moon (for the Dharma name): Helen Degenhardt, Laura Hartman, Pearl Kan
This ceremony takes the place of Dharma Seminar this week.
PLEASE NOTE: In-person attendees, please register by 5 pm Sunday May 5 so that we can prepare the ceremony and reception. Zoom attendees do not need to register.
In-person attendees are also expected to review and follow our current Covid protocol.
