Seung Sahn Haeng Won Dae Soen-sa (Korean: 숭산행원대선사 Hanja: 崇山行願大禪師) (August 1 1927 – November 30 2004) born Duk-In Lee was a South Korean Jogye Seon master and founder of the international Kwan Um School of Zen—the largest (Western Based) Zen institution present in the western hemisphere[citation needed]. He was the seventy-eighth Patriarch in his lineage. As one of the early Korean Zen masters to settle in the United States he opened many temples and practice groups across the globe.
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