HuffPost: Buddhist Wedding Ideas for an Interfaith or Non-Denominational Ceremony

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Buddhist Wedding Ideas for an Interfaith or Non-Denominational Ceremony

Posted: 09/07/2015 3:42 pm EDT Updated: 09/07/2015 3:59 pm EDT

A BUDDHIST WEDDING Celebrated Within the Western Tradition

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A BUDDHIST WEDDING Celebrated Within the Western Tradition

July 6, 2015 by James Ford

A BUDDHIST WEDDING
Celebrated Within the Western Tradition

A Service
Compiled and Edited from diverse sources by
James Ishmael Ford
With the assistance of Tetsugan Zummach & Dosho Port

(Some years ago I composed a Wedding Service for Buddhists in the West. The following service includes a number of corrections and expansions from that earlier document suggested by the Zen priests Tetsugan Zummach & Dosho Port, and used in their 2015 wedding. While “bride” and “groom” are used in the text, this service is easily adaptable to same gender weddings. It is my sincere hope that this service be of use both to the Western Buddhist convert community seeking ways to honor their Buddhism, and for Buddhist immigrants looking for ways to adapt the traditions of the West to our shared faith. JIF)

Patheos: A Buddhist Wedding Service

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A Buddhist Wedding Service

In the Western Tradition[i]

Compiled from diverse sources,

Edited and annotated by

The Reverend James Ishmael Ford

Boundless Way Zen Sangha

A BUDDHIST WEDDING SERVICE In the Western Tradition

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A BUDDHIST WEDDING SERVICE In the Western Tradition

Compiled from diverse sources,

Edited and annotated by

The Reverend James Ishmael Ford

Boundless Way Zen Sangha

Thubten Chodron: a Marriage blessing

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http://www.thubtenchodron.org/DailyLifeDharma/wedding_ceremony.html

Thubten Chodron : a Marriage Blessing/Wedding

A Marriage Blessing I was asked by a couple in USA to lead a marriage blessing (This is different from a marriage ceremony, which monastics are not allowed to perform) and prepared the following. Others may use or borrow from it according to their needs. Thubten Chodron and Wedding Ceremony by Steven Vannoy and Samia Shalabi The following "ceremony" was performed as our celebration of our wedding. We were married in a private ceremony by a magistrate and then arranged to invite extended family and friends to our "celebration of love". We had our friend facilitate the ceremony, while we stood holding hands, facing the guests with the main facilitator read what follows off to our left. The crowd was more Christian than Buddhist, but we received a lot of positive feedback from people, particularly of the kind, "that really made me think!" First names were replaced with generic pronouns in order for people to adapt this to their own use.