AZTA MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONNAIRE I. IDENTIFICATION 1. Please list your name, street address, phone number, and e-mail address.

2. Where do you teach? Please include your center or temple website if you have one. II. AUTHORIZATION 1. 2. 3. 4. What is your school (e.g., Soto, Rinzai, Soen, Thien...) and within that school what is your dharma lineage and who should we contact about your credentials? Who authorized you to teach and when? Are you sanctioned as a full teacher? If not, what restrictions have been placed on your teaching and what circumstance would lift these restrictions? What sort of interviews are you authorized to give? (e.g., koan/kong-an interviews, Soto dokusan, etc.)

III. TRAINING 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. How many years did you practice before becoming a teacher? Did you train in residence at a practice place? If yes, where was this (multiple places may be listed), what was expected of you, and for how long were you a resident? Did you train as a non-resident? If yes, where was this (multiple places may be listed), what was expected of you, and for how long did you practice there? What sort of positions did you hold at the places you practiced before you became a teacher? Roughly how many days of intensive retreat have you sat when you were not the teacher? Does your practice experience include long (over a week) retreats and/or solo retreats? If so, please describe. Who was/were your main teacher/s? With whom did you complete your training? In the tradition in which you have been sanctioned, were you required to resolve koans as part of your formal? If so, was there a specific koan/kong-an curriculum? And, if so, what as it? .Who could confirm that you completed this curriculum as required?

IV. STATUS 1. 2. 3. 4. Are you ordained? If so, at what level? Are you lay? If so, what precepts have you taken? Are you ordained in or authorized to teach in another (Buddhist or non-Buddhist) tradition? If you have a close affinity to another tradition, how would you characterize your connection with it?

V. RESPONSIBILITIES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. At what center(s) do you teach? Are any of them close enough for you to regularly practice with them? If so, what is their regular schedule and how much do you participate? Are you the only teacher where you teach? If not, with whom else do you teach and how are teaching responsibilities shared? Are you directly responsible to another teacher about teaching matters, or are you independent? Do you have formal students, and if so, how many? Are you authorized to sanction others to teach within your lineage? If so, at what level? Can you sanction others to fully transmit your lineage and to eventually fully transmit it themselves? What is your typical retreat schedule, and how often do you lead retreats?

VI. TRADITION 1. 2. 3. Do you maintain the practice forms and rituals transmitted to you when you were in training? If not, in what ways have you changed them? Do you conduct chanting and bowing services? Do you conduct precept ceremonies and ordinations?

VII. TIME AND MONEY 1. 2. 3. 4. Are you salaried or otherwise compensated by your sangha? If so, in what way? What other income do you have? About how many days a year do you lead retreats? On average, about how much time a month do you work on other aspects of teaching (correspondence, meeting with students, preparing talks and classes and presentations, attending teachers meetings) REFERENCES

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Please list any current AZTA members who you believe would be willing to recommend you for membership. What is your association with them?