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Wu Bong born Jacob Perl was a Soen Sa Nim (Zen master) in the Kwan Um School of Zen. Perl was the head teacher of the European Kwan Um School of Zen. As the first student of Dae Soen Sa Nim (Seung Sahn) in the United States he had previously practiced Zen Buddhism in the Sōtō tradition at the San Francisco Zen Center under Shunryu Suzuki. He also spent one year studying Tibetan Buddhism at the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center in Berkeley California under Tarthang Tulku.
