priest
A monastic who is trained and can function as clergy, providing spiritual care to others and performing ceremony and ritual in the tradition in which they are ordained. We tend to use monk and priest similarly, but not synonymously, at Dharma Rain. Both terms denote someone who has undergone shukke tokudo (monk ordination). A priest may or may not be living as a monastic after having completed the spiritual formation that occurs during novice training. Priest is not a rank different from monk.