{"id":16687,"date":"2012-03-12T00:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16687"},"modified":"2012-03-12T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T03:24:50","slug":"buddhist-chaplain-candidate-sworn-in-on-sutra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/12\/buddhist-chaplain-candidate-sworn-in-on-sutra\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Chaplain Candidate Sworn in on Sutra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhen Guan, a monk originally from China, was recently sworn in as the US Army&#8217;s latest Second Lieutenant and Buddhist chaplain candidate.\u00a0 He gave his oath with his hand on the Vimalakirti Sutra, which is a Buddhist text.<\/p>\n<p>Guan&#8217;s oath was administered by Chaplain <!--more-->(1Lt) Christopher Mohr, a recent graduate of the same Buddhist school, and was observed by three other Buddhist chaplain candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the highlight of no Air Force Buddhist chaplain, it would seem Buddhists are having little trouble recruiting religious leaders for military service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/buddhistmilitarysangha.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/new-buddhist-chaplain-candidate.html\">Buddhist Military Sangha<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhen Guan, a monk originally from China, was recently sworn in as the US Army&#8217;s latest Second Lieutenant and Buddhist chaplain candidate.\u00a0 He gave his oath with his hand on the Vimalakirti Sutra, which is a Buddhist text. Guan&#8217;s oath was administered by Chaplain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88,37,5284,908,538,2,10,171,3034,3033],"class_list":["post-16687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-buddhism","tag-chaplain","tag-china","tag-christopher-mohr","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-vimalakirti-sutra","tag-zhen-guan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}