[erroxiainsona]

Hi, SS, and welcome.

I have considered myself a Buddhist for some ten years and never done any sort of ritual or "formal indiction".

Perhaps many folks feel a need for a bit of ceremony (seems to me out of conditioning, i.e., graduations and such) in order to "feel like they have changed their status", if you will, but in the end the Buddha's teachings are about letting go of illusions of status and ownership, rather than indulging or embracing them.

That being said, though, I do imagine it might be fun to sit down at a floor table in a kimono over a nice raku tea set and have a little cup and chit-chay with some wise old guy who might at some point say something like, "Poof! You're a Buddhist!"...