Wubong

Wubong 우봉
Title	Soen sa Nim
Personal
Born	(1950-06-22)June 22, 1950 Poland
Died	April 17, 2013(2013-04-17) (aged 62)
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
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. He also spent one year studying the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism at the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center in Berkeley, California under Tarthang Tulku.

Born in Poland, he and Seungsahn established the first Zen center ever to exist in his home country in 1978. 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.

In 2009, Wubong became a bhikṣu. He died while leading a zen retreat in Paris on April 17, 2013.

See also

• Buddhism in Europe
• Buddhism in the United States
• Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States

References

• Prebish, Charles S (1999). Luminous Passage: The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21697-0. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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