Zen Mountain Monastery, New York, Sunday 10/17/2021 - Shugen Roshi officiates the Fall Ango Jukai ceremony at Zen Mountain Monastery in which five students receive the sixteen Buddhist precepts: Jessica Shokei Ludwig ("sacred jewel"), Joanne Jishin Dearcopp ("compassionate faith"), Jimmie Seikaku Stone ("vow of awakening"), Jack Kanro Hennesey ("barrier of openness"), Diane Ansen Strablow ("peaceful waters / peaceful spring"). Shokei, Jishin, Seikaku, Kanro, & Ansen have all been practicing as formal students and studying these moral and ethical teachings for a number of years. During the ceremony Shugen Roshi offers joyful encouragement to the recipients as they take up these living teachings, living vows.