The Su Bong Zen Monastery exists to help people practice keeping don't know mind and find their true nature. Since May 1992, when Zen Master Seung Sahn and his disciple, Zen Master Su Bong first taught in Hong Kong, our Sangha here has included members from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Brazil and Australia. The Su Bong Zen Monastery has sponsored teaching trips by the Zen Masters and their students to China, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnem, and Sri Lanka. A Prominent goal of the Su Bong Monastery is to bring back Zen teaching to its original home, China, and to continue to produce teachers for China and Southeast Asia, train monks, nuns and lay students to find theri true selves, get Enlightenment, and save all beings from suffering. We invite you to join in this effort.
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History Zen Master Seung Sahn, the founding teacher of the Kwan Um School of Zen, is the 78th patriarch in his line of transmission. He shares the same lineage as the 6th Patriarch from China to Korea during the Tang Dynasty which runs from the 56th Patriarch Shih Shih C'hing Kung to Tae-Ko Bo Wu. Seung Sahn went to the United States in 1972 and is the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. In the same year he started the Providence Zen Center in America. This means first attaining our true self so that we understand our correct situation, correct function and our correct relationship with our siturtion.