Profile :
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1934 | - Born in Namhae, South Gyeongsang Province, Republic of Korea |
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1953 | - Enters Haein Monastery, receives novice ordination from Seon Master Seoku |
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1957 | - Receives full Bhikksu ordination in Tongdo Monastery |
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1959 | - Begins practice under guidance of Seon Master Hyanggok |
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1967 | - Receives Dharma transmission from Master Hyanggok, continuing the lineage of the masters Gyeongheo, Hyewol, Unbong, and Hyanggok. Recognized in Korea as the 79th Patriarch in the dharma lineage deriving from Shakyamuni Buddha. |
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1971 | - Founded the monastery of Haeun Jeongsa |
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1979 | - Josil (Guiding Seon Master) of Geummo Seon Hall at Haeun Jeongsa |
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1991 | - Chairman of the Board, Institute of Seon Studies. Appointed Guiding Master of Central Seon Center |
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1994 | - Josil (Guiding Seon Master) of Donghwa Monastery |
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1996 | - Appointed Josil (Guiding Seon) Master of the "Fundamental Seon Practice," responsible for overseeing the Seon training of meditation monks in the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism |
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1998 | - Invited to be a presiding Seon Master for the First Open Seon Conference, held at Baekyang Monastery |
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2000 | - Invited to be a presiding Seon Master for the Second Open Seon Conference, held at Baekyang Monastery |
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2000 | - Invited to be Josil (Guiding Seon Master) of Taego Seon Hall at Bongam Monastery |
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2002 | - Presiding Seon Master of the International Open Seon Conference, held at Haeunjeongsa |
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2003 | - Becomes a member of the Council of Elders, Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism |
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2004 | - Awarded the title of Daejongsa, "most eminent monk," by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism |
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2009 | - Presiding Seon Master of the "Hundred-Seat Dharma Assembly" held in the BEXCO center, Busan, South Korea |
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2011 | - Dharma Talk at New York Riverside Church on "Ganhwa Seon and World Peace" |
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2012. 2 | - Attended the 60th National Prayer Breakfast in the US. - Dharma Talk for International Leadership Seminar |
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2012. 3 | - Appointed the Supreme Patriarch of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism |
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2012. 10 | - Dharma Talk at UN plaza on "World Peace and the Ecological Crisis; Buddhist Wisdom" |
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Books | - The Stone man laughs - Seon, One Hundred Questions and Answers - Moon pulled out from an Old Pond - A Stone Man Fetches Water, A Wooden Maiden Picks Flowers - Open the Mind, See the Light |
