Wubong
Wubong 우봉 | |
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| Title | Soen sa Nim |
| Personal | |
| Born | Jacob Perl June 22, 1950 |
| Religion | Zen |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Grazyna Perl |
| School | Kwan Um School of Zen |
| Education | Brown University |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Paris Zen Center |
| Predecessor | Seungsahn |
| Initiation | April 17, 2013 (aged 62) |
| Website | zen.kwanumeurope.org/ |
Wu Bong, born Jacob Perl, was a Zen master in the Kwan Um School of Zen. Perl was the head teacher of the European Kwan Um School of Zen. The first student of Seungsahn in the United States, he had previously practiced Zen in the Sōtō tradition at the San Francisco Zen Center under Shunryū Suzuki.[1] He also spent one year studying the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism at the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center in Berkeley, California under Tarthang Tulku.[2]
Born in Poland, he and Seungsahn established the first Zen center ever to exist in his home country in 1978.[3] In 1983 Perl was made a Ji Do Poep Sa Nim in the Kwan Um School—granting him some teaching responsibilities—and in 1993 he received dharma transmission from Seungsahn, making him an independent Zen master. Perl's wife, Grazyna Perl (Bonyo), is also a Zen master in the Kwan Um School of Zen. The pair moved to Paris in 1995 and established the Paris Zen Center.[4][5]
In 2009, Wubong became a bhikṣu. He died while leading a zen retreat in Paris on April 17, 2013.[6]
Other media
Video
- Don't Know - A tribute to Zen Master Wu Bong, by Fabio Dondero and Chiara Somajni, 2016 (Video on demand, Documentary webpage)
See also
Notes
- ^ Prebish; 34
- ^ [1] Archived October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [2] Archived March 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Kwan um School of Zen Europe | Paris". www.kwanumeurope.org. Archived from the original on 7 April 2011.
- ^ "Zen and the art of discovering Paris - IgoUgo Paris Journal - Ozzy-Dave". Igougo.com. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
- ^ Adam Tebbe. "Zen Master Wu Bong, Jacob Perl, dies at age 62". Sweeping Zen. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
References
- Prebish, Charles S (1999). Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21697-0.
External links
- http://www.kwanumzen.org/
- http://zen.kwanumeurope.org/
- Transmission speech
- Leave Your Mind Alone
- Not Difficult, Not Easy
- Ecology of Mind
- The pilgrimage to awakening
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