Jukai is “giving and receiving the Precepts,” a ceremony in which lay students vow to follow and express the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts. During the ceremony, initiates receive the Precepts, lineage papers that trace their relationship to Buddha through our Zen ancestors, a new name, and a rakusu (which they have hand-sewn) from a lineage-holding priest.
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