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, Israel and Great Britain... 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

Jo Potter JDPSN 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

Oleg Šuk JDPSN (Dharma Master Shim Jeom)  received Inka from Zen Master Wu Bong in September 2009.  He is Guiding Teacher for Kwan Um School of Zen groups in Slovakia, Russia, Latvia and the Czech Republic…  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 is co-founder of York Zen with her husband Roger Keyes. She began practice with the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1989 and did most of her training at Providence Zen Center, Rhode Island, U.S.A…  Read More