Chong Hae Sunim JDPS is the abbot of the Providence Zen Center in
Cumberland, Rhode Island. He is the guiding teacher of the Zen Group of
Pittsburgh and the Northern Light Zen Center in Brunswick Maine. He is also
active with the Brown Zen Community at Brown University and the Wheaton College
Zen Group, and visits prisons in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. From 1996 to
2000 he was resident director of the Dharma Sound Zen Center in Seattle. Prior
to joining the Kwan Um School he trained in the Japanese and Vietnamese Zen
traditions. He was ordained a monk in 1996 and received inka from Zen Master
Seung Sahn on April 7, 2001.
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