Guiding Teacher

Guiding Teacher
Zen Master Bomun
(George Bowman)

George Bowman, Zen Master Bomun, has practiced Zen since 1968. His primary teachers are Zen Master Seung Sahn and Joshu Sasaki Roshi. He has also practiced with Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Eido Roshi, Aitken Roshi and Kobun Chino Roshi.

He has studied and taught in China, Korea, Japan, Europe, Canada, and the United States. He travels regularly in the United States leading retreats as the guiding teacher of The Single Flower Sangha.

Currently, he resides at the Furnace Mountain Zen Center in Kentucky. He travels monthly to the Boston area where he leads sesshin for the Single Flower Sangha.

Teaching

Bomun's teisho is both deeply rooted in the traditional teachings of the Buddha, the lineage teachings of the old Zen Masters, and totally in the moment. Click here to see a partial transcript of one of his teisho.

Study, Practice, and Teaching History

1968

Began Zen practice under Susuki Roshi

1969–1971

Graduate work in Psychology of religion Brown University and Duke Univiversity, Department of Anthropology

1972–1990

Studied in residence with Zen Master Seung Sahn at the Providence Zen Center.

1972

Lay Ordination, given the Buddhist name Soeng Hae (Ocean Nature)

1977

Received Inka from Zen Master Seung Sahn.

1977–1990

Guiding Teacher of the Providence Zen Center. Taught and studied worldwide.

1977–2008

Koan Study with Joshu Sasaki Roshi

1982

Ordained as a Bodhisattva Zen Priest

1991–1999

Guiding Teacher for The Cambridge Buddhist Association

1992

Dharma Transmission from Zen Master Seung Sahn as Zen Master Bomun.

1993–2000

Private practice of Contemplative Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA.

1994

Founder and Guiding teacher of the Institute for the Study of Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA.

1994

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

2000–2008

In residence Furnace Mountain Zen Center, KY.

2004

Co-Active Life Coach Training with The Coaches Training Institute