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Dharma names
  
Fragrant Nature

Teacher
  
Seungsahn

Titles
  
Zen master

Name
  
Soenghyang Soenghyang

Website
  
www.kwanumzen.org/

Other names
  
Barbara Rhoades


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Religion
  
Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism

Born
  
April 15, 1948 (age 76) Providence, Rhode Island, USA (
1948-04-15
)

Predecessor
  
Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim

Soeng Hyang Soen Sa Nim (성향선사, born April 15, 1948) is a Zen Master and the Guiding Teacher of the international Kwan Um School of Zen, and successor to the late Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim.

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Biography

Born Barbara Trexler (later Barbara Rhodes through marriage to Lincoln Rhodes, also a Ji Do Poep Sa Nim in the order), her father was a Navy officer, and her family moved often. As a teenager in the 1960s, she traveled to California to participate in the counter cultural flowering around San Francisco, and briefly visited Tassajara Zen Monastery, though she did not practice there. She later moved back to Rhode Island, where she met Seung Sahn in 1972, who became her teacher. She was a founding member of the Providence Zen Center, now located in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Soeng Hyang received inka from Seung Sahn Soen Sa Nim in 1977, and full Dharma transmission in 1992.

Personal life

She has two daughters, one adopted. She has been in a same-sex relationship for many years.

Background

Seong Hyang is a registered nurse and hospice caregiver.

References

Soenghyang Wikipedia


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