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===Hokai===
The dharma ranks point to the stages in the training to become an [[Oshō]], priest or "technologist of the spirit".<ref group=web>[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2009/03/monks-nuns-priests-in-western-zen.html James Ishmael Ford: ''Bodhisattva Ordination, Leadership Reform, and the Role of Zen Clerics in Japan'']</ref> To become a dai-Oshō, priest of a Zen-temple, one has to follow the training in an officially recognized training centre, ''
====Joza - Ordination====
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{{quote|Zui means "auspicious", se is "the world". Originally, it seems that it meant the same as shusse, i.e. to get promoted to an office, to make a carrier step. Maybe it can also be interpreted as "to make an auspicious announcement to the whole world" or something along those lines.<ref name=Antaiji4 group=web>[http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult49.shtml Muho Noelke, ''Part 4: Zui-se - abbot for the night'']</ref>}}
''Zuise'' is also called ''ichiya-no-jûshoku'', "abbot for one night".<ref name=Antaiji4 group=web /> In this ceremony, one is "abbot for one night". The ceremony has to be done at both [[Eihei-ji]] and [[Soji-ji]], the main temples of the Sotō-shu, within the timespan of one month.<ref name=Antaiji4 group=web /> After ''zuise'' one becomes an ''Oshō'', "priest" or "teacher".
====Dai-Oshō====
After having become ''oshō'' one may become a ''dai-oshō'', resident priest in a Zen-temple. It takes further training in a ''sodo'', an officially recognized Soto-shu training centre.<ref name=Antaiji5 group=web />
A prerequisite to become ''dai-oshō'' is to do ''[[ango]]'', "to stay in peace" or "safe shelter".<ref name=Antaiji5 group=web>[http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult50.shtml Muho Noelke, ''Part 5: Sessa-takuma - ango as life in a rock grinder'']</ref> It is derived from ancient Indian Buddhism, when monks retreated into shelter during the rain-season. ''Ango'' is a period of 90 or 100 days of intensive practice. There is no fixed stage on the training-path when ''ango'' has to be done, but ordination as a monk is necessary, and it has to been done in a ''sodo''.<ref name=Antaiji5 group=web /> The aspirant ''dai-oshō'' has to spend at least six months there, but one or two years is the usual span of time.<ref name=Antaiji5 group=web /> ''Ango'' is necessary because it "grinds" the future ''dai-oshō'':
{{quote|The point of ango is: Sessa-takuma. I used this term a number of times in the past. It consists of four Chinese characters: 切磋琢磨 The first means to cut (a bone or elephant tusk), the second to rub, the third to crush (a stone or gem), the fourth to polish. As a whole, it describes how various hard materials grind each others and during this process are all refined [...] Ango is important exactly because it can be a pain in the ass to live with others who go on our nerves, occupy our space and demand our time, have different habits and different vies, different outlooks on life etc. They often show us a mirror because life in the monastery forces them to do so, when people in the world would just step out off our way.<ref name=Antaiji5 group=web />}}
''Ango'' helps to become a mature person:
{{quote|[T]hat is the real meaning of ango. Sharing all of your time and space and energy. Does it help to balance your nerves? In my case: Not always so. But it certainly helps to mature, and in my view, practice has something to do with being an adult.<ref name=Antaiji5 group=web />}}
Thereafter one may become the resident priest in one's own temple.<ref name=Antaiji3 group=web /> Hereby one can gain the highest rank:
{{quote|After you become the head priest at your own temple and hold a practice period there for the first time (with one student acting as the shuso), you will finally reach the highest rank of dai-osho.<ref name=Antaiji3 group=web />}}
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==External links==
'''Training'''
* [[Muho Noelke]]: What does it take to become a full-fledged Soto-shu priest and is it really worth the whole deal? Part [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult45.shtml 1] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult46.shtml 2] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult47.shtml 3] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult49.shtml 4] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult50.shtml 5] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult51.shtml 6] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult53.shtml 7] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult54.shtml 8] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/adult55.shtml 9] - [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/201201.shtml 10]
* [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/eng/kosho-uchiyama-monk.shtml Uchiyama Kôshô Rôshi: To you who has decided to become a Zen monk]
* [http://antaiji.dogen-zen.de/kimyou/2007/eng-0303.html Married monks?]
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