I get many questions on my videos about how to become a Buddhist. So here are my thoughts on that! We'll talk a bit about what happens when you turn up at a Buddhist center, what they expect of you, the difference between being a Buddhist layperson versus a monastic, and so on. We'll also turn to the question of whether it matters if we have the label "Buddhist" or not.

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✅ Video:
The Five Precepts:    • The Five Precepts  

✅ Material on becoming Buddhist from a few traditions:
Becoming a Zen Buddhist:    • What does it mean to formally become ...  
Becoming a Zen priest: https://www.zendust.org/monastery/ord...
Lay teaching in Zen Buddhism: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/layb...
Bodhisattva vows: https://www.upaya.org/teachings/litur...

Theravāda ordination: http://www.buddhanet.net/elearning/b...
https://bhavanasociety.org/ord

Tibetan Buddhist ordination: https://www.dalailama.com/messages/bu...
Lama Jampa Thaye (Western Vajrāyāna practitioner):    • How do we become a Buddhist  

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