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| Saturday, 09 May 2009 | |
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Lecture 01 of 12
Venerable Hyon Gak Sunim is currently the Head Teacher of the Zen
hall at 500 year-old Hwa Gye Sah Temple in the Sam Gak Sahn Mountain range,
outside Seoul, South Korea. In August 2001, he received inka by Zen Master Seung Sahn the 78th Patriarch in a lineage
stretching back to Shakyamuni Buddha.
He was
born Paul Muenzen in 1964 to a family of devout Catholics in New Jersey, U.S.A.
His mother is a PhD in biochemistry, and his father was an executive at a
prominent American computer company, and later founded his own company. He has
eight brothers and sisters.
Educated in philosophy and
literature at Yale University (Class of 1987) and comparative religions at
Harvard Divinity School ('92), Ven. Hyon Gak Sunim was ordained in 1992 in the
temple of the Sixth Patriarch, Nam Hwa Sah Temple on Chogye Mountain in
Guangzhou , People's Republic of China: he was the first Westerner to be
ordained in China since the Communist Revolution.
He received Bikkhu precepts at the Diamond Altar of Tong Do Sah Temple
in Korea, one of the most sacred sites in the nation, and has been doing
training in various remote mountain places, including 3 intensive 100-day solo
retreats and some 15 group 3-month intensive meditation retreats.
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