![]() ![]() Also that year, Genthner/Dae Gak received Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn, and founded the Cincinnati Zen Center. The temple, Kwan Se Um San Ji Sah (which means "Perceive World Sound High Ground Temple"), was completed in 1994. In 1986, he co-founded a Zen temple at Furnace Mountain with Seung Sahn. The group became affiliated with Seung Sahn's Kwan Um School of Zen, founded in July 1983. In the early 1980s, he and several other individuals founded the Lexington Zen Center in his home, with retreats sometimes taking place at the homes of other practitioners. In 1979, Genthner met Korean monk and Zen teacher Seung Sahn during a retreat at the Providence Zen Center. He stopped teaching in 1979, afterward practicing as a licensed psychologist. in clinical psychology, later that year teaching psychology at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. Genthner graduated from Kent State in 1973 with his Ph.D. He went to graduate school in Psychology at Kent State University. Robert Genthner (Buddhist name Dae Gak, "great enlightenment") was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1947. in psychology and is currently a licensed psychologist in the state of Kentucky.īiography From left to right: Su Bong, Seung Sahn, and Dae Gak In addition to Furnace Mountain he serves as guiding teacher for other Zen groups in North America, Germany and England. He received Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn in 1994, and now teaches independently of Seung Sahn's Kwan Um School of Zen. Dae Gak (born 1947), born Robert Genthner, is a Zen master and the guiding teacher of Furnace Mountain in Clay City, Kentucky, a Korean Buddhist temple and retreat center co-founded in 1986 with Seung Sahn. ![]()
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