Chan Buddhists Association is a group of people practicing Czan (which is Chinese type of Zen Buddhism) under the direction of Sheng-yen the Master and his student John Crook. The Association was founded in 1997 by Sheng-yen the Master. Sheng-yen in his practices joins two Buddhist traditions - Lin-chi (Japanese: Rinzai) and Tsao-tung (Japanese: Soto).

Mistrz Sheng-jen (Sheng-yen the Master) was born in 1931. At the age of 13 he became a monk beginning his practices in a monastery next to Shanghai. In 1961, when he was 30, he decided to continue his monk life in isolation in the mountains where he stayed for six years. Later he also studied in Tokyo. Now he lives partly in New York where he leads workshops in Czan Meditation Centre and partly in Taipei where he is the abbot of two monasteries.

 

He visited Warsaw in May 1997 to lead seven-day workshops.

 

To see more information: buddyzm.org and www.czan.org.pl

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e-mail: czan@czan.eu

budwod@budwod.com.pl

 

 

Chan Buddhists Association

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4 Słoneczna St

05-540 Zalesie Górne next to Warsaw