Accountability

Guidance

Support

Community

Zen Master Bon Hae

Judy Roitman began practicing Zen with Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1976. One of the founders of the Kansas Zen Center in 1978, she received inka (full authorization to teach) from Zen Master Seung Sahn in 1998 and transmission from Zen Master Dae Kwang in April 2013. She is currently the guiding teacher of the Kansas Zen Center.

Nancy Hedgpeth JDPSN

Nancy Brown Hedgpeth JDPSN has practiced with the KUSZ since 1979 and received inka in 1994. She has lived at and worked for a number of zen centers and has sat long retreats in the US and South Korea. She is Co-Guiding Teacher for the Providence Zen Center. She is a retired nurse. These days she lives in Waterville, Maine from which she does most of her group practice online.

Arne Schaefer JDPSN

Arne Schaefer JDPSN began practicing in the Tibetan Kagyu Tradition in 1990 and started practicing Zen in the Kwan Um School of Zen in 1992. Since then he has practiced with many teachers of the Kwan Um School of Zen in Europe, Korea and the USA. In April 2010, Arne Schaefer received Inka from Zen Master Wu Bong. Together with his wife he established Lotus Consult to integrate their shared Buddhist background with their work as coaches and consultants. In 2010 Arne also started mindsweets, a small enterprise creating and selling organic sweets for medita(s)ting.

Igor Piniński JDPSN

Igor Piniński JDPSN graduated in acting from a prestigious Łódź film school. Right now he is working in his own film studio in Łódź, focusing on educational films. He lives with his wife in the countryside near Łódź. He started practicing in Łódź Zen Center in 1995 and has participated in over 120 YMJJs in Łódź, and also every year in the Kyol Che at Wu Bong Sah. On March 9, 2013, Igor Piniński received Inka from Zen Master Bon Shim in Wu Bong Sah Temple in Poland.

SK Teoh JDPSN

SK Teoh JDPSN is from Malaysia and received inka in 2015. In 1992, he began to practice Zen after being inspired by Zen Master Seung Sahn’s teachings in Hong Kong. He served in the first directors’ group at Su Bong Zen Monastery there. Ordaining in February 1997, he trained as a Zen monk for twenty eight years, sixteen of which was spent in Korea. He served in various positions at Mu Sang Sa and returned to Malaysia in 2013, founding Haeng Won Zen Centre in Penang where he is the guiding teacher. He continues to teach Zen in a secular capacity and pursue his interests in the climate, environment, death and dying.

Marshall White JDPSN

Marshall White JDPSN first became interested in Buddhism and Zen as a teenager, began practicing Buddhism in college, and spent several years living in Asia, practicing Soto Zen in Japan and Tibetan Buddhism in India. On returning from Asia in 2000, he began practicing with the Kwan Um School of Zen. Marshall is currently 6th degree black belt in Aikido and works as a professional hospice chaplain in the San Francisco Bay Area. Marshall received Inka on April 1, 2023, from Zen Master Bon Soeng.