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The Kwan Um School of Zen (관음선종회,觀音禪宗會) (KUSZ) is an international school of zen centers and groups founded in 1983 by Zen Master Seung Sahn.The school's international head temple is located at the Providence Zen Center in Cumberland, Rhode Island, which was founded in 1972 shortly after Seung Sahn first came to the United States.
Musangsa is the Head Temple in Asia of the international zen organization Kwan Um School of Zen. The temple holds 3 months silent retreats Kyolche each in summer and winter every year where monastics and lay practitioners practice together.
In 1988 he married Grazyna, and their son Matthew was born in 1989. In 1992 he was officially appointed European Head Teacher by the founding teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen, Zen Master Seung Sahn. In 1993 he received transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn and was given the Dharma name Wu Bong, which means Universal Peak.
Chogye International Zen Center is a Kwan Um School of Zen practice center founded by Seung Sahn in 1975, located in New York City. The center offers a daily practice regimen, as well as retreats and workshops. Wu Kwang is the guiding teacher and resident Zen Master. [1]
The Kwan Um School of Zen was founded in 1983 and, unlike more traditional practice in Korea, Seungsahn allowed laypersons in the lineage to wear the robes of full monastics, upsetting some in the Jogye Order by allowing lay Dharma teachers to wear long robes.
The Kwan Um School of Zen (관음선종회) (KUSZ) is an international school of Zen centers and groups, founded in 1983 by Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim. There are four kinds of teachers in the Kwan Um tradition, all having attained a varying degree of mastery and understanding.
The Buddhist establishment in Japan considers him a maverick over his willingness to teach former members of the Doomsday Cult Aum Shinrikyo [4] Long critical over the system of charges for funerals that help to support Rinzai temples and train monks, by mutual agreement with Myoshinji, he withdrew from the Myoshinji branch of the Rinzai Zen ...
Su Bong (Korean: 수봉; January 7, 1943—July 17, 1994) was a Soen Sa Nim in the Kwan Um School of Zen, the designated heir of Seung Sahn's lineage. Of both Korean and Chinese heritage, [1] he was born in Kona, Hawaii.