Zen Master Seung Sahn (1927 - 2004) is the spiritual teacher of KYCL. He was born in 1927 in Seun Choen, North Korea and became a Buddhist monk in 1948. He received Dharma Transmission from Zen Master Ko Bong at the age of 22 and became the 78th Patriach in his line of succession in the Chogye order of Korean Buddhism, which traces all the way back to Zen Master Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch of the Chinese Zen Buddhism. To spread the Dharma, Zen Master Seung Sahn went to the United States and founded the Providence Zen Centre, the first center of the Kwan Um School of Zen, which now has more than 100 Zen centres all over the world.
 
崇山禅师(1927 - 2004)是观音禅林的精神导师。他生于1927年北韩 首都平壤，于1948年出家。在二十二岁时，接受古峰禅师传法，成为韩国佛教曹溪宗第七十八代祖师。其法脉，可上朔至中国禅 宗六祖惠能大师。为了弘扬佛法，崇山禅师到美国成立了普罗维登斯禅修中心（Providence Zen Center ）。此中心，也成为观 音禅宗会国际禅院的第一所禅修中心。目前在世界各地创办了一百多所禅修中心。

Ven. Chi Boon, also known in Korean as Gye Mun Sumin, is the abbot of KYCL. He was given ‘inka’ on 8 November 1998 by Zen Master Seung Sahn.
 
‘Inka’ means an acknowledgment of accomplishment in Zen practice. It is given by Zen Master Seung Sahn to senior students called Ji Do Poep Sa (Guides to the Way or Dharma Masters), who are authorized to teach Zen.
 
继闻法师是观音禅林的住持。他于1998年11月8日，获得崇山禅师 印可，成为禅修指导法师 (Ji Do Poep Sa, JDPS) 。
 
印可，就是印证禅修的成就。这是崇山禅师授权资深弟子成为指导法师，教授禅法。