Originally Posted by
Jundo
The ceremony is traditional, yet groundbreaking ... for we believe it is the first time that a Buddhist Ordination has been performed simultaneously on three continents (with Taigu and Jundo in Japan, and our three ordainees in Canada, Germany and Sweden) all simultaneously linked by audio-visual media via the internet. Some of the more conservative and "stuck in their mental barriers", unable to think outside the box, folks in the Buddhist world may have trouble with that fact. Many Buddhist folks ... who are usually all about dropping categories like "time and space" ... and who regularly invite all the ancient Buddhas and long dead Ancestors into their ceremonies ... completely reject that a ceremony of ordination can be done 'long distance' via the 'internet'.