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    died in November that year at Hwagaesa in Seoul, South Korea, at age 77. Seung Sahn was born in 1927 as Duk-In Lee (modern romanisation: Yi Deog'in) in Sunchon...
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    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...
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    martial art. In 1972, while still a student at Brown, he met Zen Master Seung Sahn and became one of his first students. He completed his first 100-day solo...
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    of Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn, and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of hatha...
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    co-founded in 1986 with Seung Sahn. He received Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn in 1994, and now teaches independently of Seung Sahn's Kwan Um School of...
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    of the international Kwan Um School of Zen, and successor to the late Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim. Born Barbara Trexler (later Barbara Rhodes through marriage...
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  • In the Western Kwan Um School of Zen created by the Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn, "Inka" is granted to an individual who has completed their koan training...
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    from Bernard Glassman, and previously studied with the Korean zen master Seung Sahn. In the 1970s she collaborated on LSD research projects with her ex-husband...
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  • teacher Seung Sahn in America and Europe, a Zen master can be referred to as a Soen Sa Nim (seonsa-nim; 선사님; 禪師님; seon being Korean for "Zen"). Seung Sahn himself...
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    Order of Korean Buddhism. The Providence Zen Center was established by Seung Sahn in October 1972 on Doyle Avenue in Providence, Rhode Island as the first...
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