Our Teachers

Zen Master Seung Sahn

Zen Master Seung Sahn (1927 - 2004) is the spiritual teacher of KYCL. He was born in 1927 in Seun Choen, North Korea and became a Buddhist monk in 1948. He received Dharma Transmission from Zen Master Ko Bong at the age of 22 and became the 78th Patriach in his line of succession in the Chogye order of Korean Buddhism, which traces all the way back to Zen Master Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of the Chinese Zen Buddhism. To spread the Dharma, Zen Master Seung Sahn went to the United States and founded the Providence Zen Centre, the first center of the Kwan Um School of Zen, which now has more than 100 Zen centres all over the world.

Venerable Chi Boon (“Ven. Chi Boon”)

Ven. Chi Boon, also known in Korean as Gye Mun Sumin JDPS, is the founding abbot and guiding teacher of Kwan Yin Chan Lin Zen Meditation Centre. He was given ‘inka’ on 8 November 1998 by Zen Master Seung Sahn.

‘Inka’ means an acknowledgment of breakthrough in Zen practice and authority to teach Zen to others. The title given at ‘Inka’ is Ji Do Poep Sa which is Guides to The Way or Dharma Masters.