Samu (sunim)
| Samu Sunim | |
|---|---|
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| Religion | Seon |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1941 Korea |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom Maitreya Buddhist Seminary |
| Title | Sunim |
| Successor | Haju Linda Murray Toan José Castelão |
| Religious career | |
| Website | [1] www.zenbuddhisttemple.org |
Samu Sunim (born 1941), born Sam-Woo Kim, is a Korean Seon sunim of the Jogye Order. He received Dharma transmission from Zen Master Weolha Sunim in 1983. He has taught primarily in Canada and the United States, having opened centers in Toronto, New York, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois as well as Mexico City.
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Biography
Samu Sunim was born in Korea in 1941, suffering the loss of both parents at an early age. He was orphaned at age eleven and became homeless. After several years of living on the streets, Samu was ordained as a Buddhist monk at Pomo-sa in Pusan, Korea in 1956 (age 15). He moved to Japan in order to avoid conscription and relocated to the United States in 1968, where he established the Zen Lotus Society in New York (today named the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom).
In 1971 he spent three years in retreat in Montreal, Canada and then began teaching. He reported to have had a vision in 1977 in which his deceased teacher (Solbong Sunim) came to him and gave Dharma transmission. He received a more traditional authorization as a Zen master from Weolha Sunim in 1983. Although none of his teachings have been published as yet, tales of him appear often in works by his student Geri Larkin.
In addition to New York, he has founded Zen centers in Toronto, Canada, Chicago, Illinois Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Mexico City; in 1985 established the Maitreya Buddhist Seminary. While originally a monk within the Jogye Order, Samu Sunim's Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom does not require celibacy.[1][2]
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- http://monkeymindonline.blogspot.com/2008/09/zen-master-samu-sunim.html
