Online Buddhist Ordination

Do you want to be a monk, but don't know how?

In the beggining - if you were friends, colleages or aquantences of the Buddha, he would say "Come, monk" (ehi bhikkhu) - and you were a monk. That's when the Sangha was at it's strongest and everyone in it was either an arahat or becoming one.

The first Monks were to ordain others by getting them to repeat the refuge formula three times "I go refuge to the Buddha. I go for refuge to the Dharma. I go for refuge to the Sangha."

Then later there were ceremonies - taking refuge in the presence of usually ten other monks that have been monks for longer than ten years.

If you want the easy way out ordain at the following places:

http://dudeism.com/ordination/

http://www.buddhismonline.us/html/free_ordination.html [dead link]

or feel free to visit the Universal Life Church or other online churches offering free ordination

The hard way:
http://ordinationthai.org/en/?page_id=26 [dead link]

information about Zen ordination online:
http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=18165

http://dangerousharvests.blogspot.com/2010/06/online-zen-priest-ordination.html

But all of this comes to your reason why you want to be ordained.
Want to preform a marriage - then it is usually a church/celebrants course.

Want to BLESS things?

This anyone can do - but don't be fooled it takes some work.

Please read Lama Yeshe's The Benefits of Chanting OM MANI PADME HUM (Audio and Transcript)

or to quote:

"When one who recites ten malas a day goes swimming, whether in a river, an ocean or some other body of water, the water that touches that person’s body gets blessed.

It is said that up to seven generations of that person’s descendents won’t get reborn in the lower realms. The reason for this is that due to the power of mantra, the body is blessed by the person reciting the mantra and visualizing their body in form of the holy body of Chenrezig. Therefore, the body becomes so powerful, so blessed that this affects the consciousness up to seven generations and has the effect that if one dies with a non-virtuous thought, one is not reborn in a lower realm.
Thus, when a person who has recited ten malas of om mani padme hum a day goes into a river or an ocean, the water that touches the person’s body gets blessed, and this blessed water then purifies all the billions and billions of sentient beings in the water. So it’s unbelievably beneficial; this person saves the animals in that water from the most unbelievable suffering of the lower realms.
When such a person walks down a road and the wind touches his or her body and then goes on to touch insects, their negative karma gets purified and causes them to have a good rebirth. Similarly, when such a person does massage or otherwise touches others’ bodies, those people’s negative karma also gets purified."
So "Come monk"