IMG hspace="5" src="/gif/people/zm_wu_bong.gif" align="right" vspace="3" border="0"> Zen
Master Wu Bong (Jacob Perl) is the head teacher of the
Kwan Um School of Zen of Europe. Before meeting Zen Master Seung Sahn and
becoming his first American student in 1972, he practiced with Suzuki Roshi at
the San Francisco Zen Center, and spent a year practicing with Tarthang Tulku
atthe Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center in Berkeley, California. He was born
in Poland, and speaks Polish fluently. In 1978 he helped Zen Master Seung Sahn
establish the first Zen center in Poland. In 1984 he was given teaching
authority and soon thereafter started to teach regularly in the United States
and Europe. He has a degree in mathematics from Brown University and is married
to Grazyna Perl JDPSN. They have established a new Zen Center in Paris, France,
and have two children.
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