Bon Shim Soen Sa Nim (Zen Master Aleksandra Porter) received inka in 1992 from Zen Master Seung Sahn and transmission in 2006 from Zen Master Wu Bong. Bon Shim SSN is the Guiding Teacher of Kwan Um School of Zen centers and groups in Poland, the Czech Republic and Spain…  Read More

Ji Kwang Soen Sa Nim (Zen Master Roland Wöhrle-Chon) received Inka in February 2000 and Dharma Transmission in April 2012 from Zen Master Wu Bong.  Ji Kwang SSN is the guiding teacher of Zen groups in Germany and Israel... Read More

Joeng Hye Soen Sa Nim (Zen Master Andrzej Piotrowski)  received Inka in March 2000 and Dharma Transmission in March 2016 from Zen Master Dae Kwang.  Joeng Hye SSN is the guiding teacher of Kwan Um Zen groups in Poland and Lithuania…  Read More

Gu Ja Soen Sa Nim (Zen Master Namhee Chon) received Inka in May 2008 and Dharma Transmission in April 2017 from Zen Master Bon Shim. Gu Ja SSN is Guiding Teacher for the Berlin Zen Center (ZZB) and the Abbess of the Kwan Um School of Zen in Germany… Read More

Alma Potter SSN received Inka in May 2008 at the Berlin Zen Center from Zen Master Wu Bong. She is Guiding Teacher for centers and groups in Austria, Spain, Hungary and Mexico… Read More

Ja An JDPSN (Dharma Master Bogumila Malinowska) is the Guiding Teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen in London.  She received Inka from Zen Master Wu Bong in September 2009 at the Warsaw Zen Center. Read More

Arne Schaefer JDPSN received Inka in April 2010 from Zen Master Wu Bong and is the Guiding Teacher of the Dresden Zen Center and the Zen groups in Hamburg and Bad Bramstedt…  Read More

Koen Vermeulen JDPSN received Inka from Zen Master Wu Bong in Poland on March 9, 2013.  He lives with his family  below the Brussels Zen Center and is the resident teacher in Brussels…  Read More

Igor Piniński JDPSN received Inka from Zen Master Bon Shim at Wu Bong Sa in Poland on March 9, 2013.  He was the abbot of the Łódź Zen Center for 14 years and is now the resident teacher there…  Read More

George Hazlbauer JDPSN received Inka from from Zen Master Dae Kwang In 2016, he was the abbot in the american school’s main temple in Providence. Currently he serves as abbot in Vrazne Zen Center, Czech Republic …  Read More

Yuval Gill JDPSN received Inka from Zen Master Ji Kwang in 2016 at Wu Bong Sa, Poland on 2016. Yuval co-founded the first Kwan Um Zen Center in Tel Aviv. Today, he is the Abbot of Kwan Um Israel …  Read More

Knud Rosenmayr JDPSN  received Inka from Zen Master Ji Kwang in 2016 at Wu Bong Sa, Poland on 2016. Since 1999 he is the group director of the Viennese Kwan Um Zen group and became the abbot of the Vienna Zen Center in 2013. …  Read More

Lizzie Coombs JDPSN received inka from Zen Master Seong Hyang in 2018 at Providence Zen Center, U.S.A. She is co-founder of York Zen Group with her husband Roger Keyes, where she is Guiding Teacher, and also Guiding Teacher of The Peak Zen Group in the U.K… Read More

Barbara Pardo JDPSN received inka from Zen Master Bon Shim in 2019. Barbara’s father, Fernando, was one of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s first students in Spain, and has been the abbot of Bori Sa Temple in Barcelona since the 1980s. Read More

Bartolomé Cantarellas Socías JDPSN met Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1981 at a retreat that was held in a monastery in Palma de Mallorca. In 1983 Bartolomé moved to Girona, in Catalonia, where he lived at Ahabah, a community that organized retreats and therapies for groups. Read More

Wu Bong Soen Sa Nim (Zen Master Jacob Perl)  was the Head Teacher of the European Kwan Um School of Zen from 1995 to 2013…  Read More

Oleg Šuk JDPSN (Dharma Master Shim Jeom)  received Inka from Zen Master Wu Bong in September 2009.  He was the Guiding Teacher for Kwan Um School of Zen groups in Slovakia, Russia, Latvia and the Czech Republic…  Read More

Myong Hae Sunim JDPS was the first Buddhist nun in Lithuania. After becoming a nun in Korea in 1997, she moved to Hong Kong and was trained by Zen Master Dae Kwan. In 2016, she received “inka”, or permission to teach, and became a “Ji Do Poep Sa Nim” in the International Kwan Um School and the second guiding teacher of Su Bong Zen Monastery  Read More