Zen Master So Sahn (1520-1604) is a towering figure in the history of Korean Zen. In this treasure-text, he presents in simple yet beautiful language the core principles and teachings of Zen.
Boep Joeng is a Korean Zen monk, a writer, and a translator of
Buddhist texts. In his native Korea, he has written widely about
meditation, social justice, environmentalism, and
nonmaterialism.
Hyon Gak Sunim, a Zen monk, was born Paul Muenzen in Rahway, New
Jersey. Educated at Yale College and Harvard University, he was
ordained a monk under Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1992 at Nam Hwa Sah
Temple, the temple of the Sixth Patriarch, Guangzhou, People’s
Republic of China. He has completed more than twenty intensive
ninety-day meditation retreats and three arduous hundred-day solo
meditation retreats in the mountains of Korea. He has compiled and
edited a number of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s texts,
including The Compass of Zen, Only Don’t
Know, and Wanting Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake. He
received inga from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 2001, and is
currently guiding teacher of the Seoul International Zen Center at
Hwa Gye Sah Temple, Seoul.
Zen Master So Sahn was born in what is now North Korea. He became a
monk at age twenty-one, and later assumed leadership positions in
both major schools of Korean Buddhism. At the end of the sixteenth
century he helped his country repel a Japanese invasion by training
and leading a monk army, making him a national hero and a household
name in Korea even into modern times.
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