April 22, 2014
Jukai: Lay Ordination, April 19

Photo by Renshin Bunce

On Saturday, April 19, preceptors Shosan Victoria Austin and Anshin Rosalie Curtis held a jukai, or lay ordination ceremony, in which lay students took vows of ethical conduct in accordance with traditional Buddhist principles. Rosalie’s dharma talk earlier that morning explained jukai in greater detail. Congratulations to these new bodhisattvas!

From left: Pat Hendricks, Rosalie Curtis, Steve Given, Victoria Austin, Nancy Gearty, Lisa Kee-Hamasaki and Ellen Simpson.

From left: Pat Hendricks, Rosalie Curtis, Steve Given, Victoria Austin, Nancy Gearty, Lisa Kee-Hamasaki and Ellen Simpson.

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