Could I go to a temple and become trained as a monk or lama or would I need a few years of experience in Buddhism first? I'm looking for the sects that allow you to have careers, as I would like to contribute much to the world.|||Before you can become ordained, the teacher will be looking to see if your interest is genuine and your practice is progressing. Not everyone is accepted into monkhood. In Tibetan Buddhism, you can take ordination after showing genuine knowledge and understanding of Buddhism and you will be questioned as to what your motivation is. You will need to do a couple (or more) years as a novice and then, depending on what you have learned, you can take more vows. Being a monk alone, helps you to contribute to the world but you can take on other study after you have understood the necessary practices and learned how to meditate properly. Lama means teacher and a Lama can be ordained as a monk or can be a lay person. The Dalai Lama is a monk and a Lama but he is also a Tulku - a reincarnated monk.|||Buddhism is a learning process unto itself - there are no requirements for experience or knowledge.
In the USA, we are bombarded by images of learned monks who have taken vows of poverty and written best selling books from their bungalows in the Tibetan hillsides... but that is not reality.
Buddhists are everyday people who practice meditation and follow the "middle path". We are training to become enlightened but we are not perfectly enlightened already.
Almost anyone can become a monk or minister with the right amount of dedication to a specific path. But it is also not necessary to be a monk in order to attain enlightenment.|||In Theravada Buddhism (found in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia), you can be a monk for as short as a day. In Thailand every male will be a monk for at least a day, and a lot of them have no idea what buddhism's about. You can robe and disrobe as you like.
However there might be a difference between being a novice and a monk. A novice still has a shaven head, wears the robe, follows the monks' rules and all but they can't perform blessings or lead ceremonies and things as they're not fully ordained. Obviously you'd need to have a few years training before people come to you for advice and you give it to them, since monks have to do this every day because people always have problems.
You don't need to be a novice even- the essence of Buddhism is more in meditation than in any ceremony or form of dress, and you can practice meditation in temples and retreats under the same rules and lifestyle of novices and monks without having to cut your hair or do anything. Meditation has nothing to do with temples; you can do it in your room and it has nothing to do with anyone else.|||Depends on which school of Buddhism. Theravadin monasteries take in children as novices as a religious grade school, but usually from Buddhist families so even they have already had a few years training. Some American Zen groups, Shasta Abbey, for example, or the Zen Center in San Francisco, or Dharma Realm Buddhist Assn. if you want the chinese tradition (see links below). Other schools are usually not monastic, and the ones that are are strict enough about such things as not handling money that it would be difficult to have another career too.
I don't know about the Tibetan groups.
Frankly, if it doesn't matter to you which school, you may not have enough dedication to the Dharma to be successful at it. Have you considered some of the non-monastic groups like Jodo Shinshu?|||I think common sense would advise that you practice a while before you enter monastic life. The training as a monastic is quite tough, and not something anyone can handle.
VERY VERY few Buddhists ever become a lama, so yes it will take numerous years (maybe lifetimes) of training.
Why do you want to become a monk if you want a career. Find the lineage that suite you, do their training and continue with your life.|||yup in some place like Sri lanka, Thailand, India they have these temporary monk novice things..where u can experience being a monk.
cut ur hair bald and be a monk for few weeks.
but most place have these camp cause the 8 precepts camp,. u sld try that 1st. usually its 3days 2 night camp. where 1 follow the 8 precepts almost 3/4 like a monk.
usually 1 have certain knowlegde of buddhism then they will decide to be a monk. like a vernerable once told me the feeling its like the stomach feeling hungry and u know its time to look for food, as in becomin a monk himself.
most temple will welcome u, temporary 1 or permanent 1.
om ara pazha nadi x100 wisdom|||From what I understand, you have to be born into the role of Lama. After the last Lama dies they go around looking at babies and pick the one who's supposed to be the reincarnation of the last Lama. That's what they did with the Dalai Lama, anway.
For monks, I think whether there's an initiation period or not depends on the monastery.|||With Falun Dafa, you can practice while maintaining a regular life in modern society.
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http://cipfg.org/en/news/petition.html|||If you learn Buddhism and then you can be a Buddhist monk. Buddhism is such very little restrictions. You may have to contact a chief monk of a Buddhist temple. You got to accept their traditions though. The shaven-head, saffron robes, skipping dinner etc.|||Buddhism is the last resort for an attempt at living a religious life.|||You would need to be fairly knowledgable in Buddhist beliefs|||I've never heard of anyone becoming a llama.|||I prefer llamas.
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