Chang Sik Kim (January 8, 1944 – March 12, 2021) was a South Korean-American Buddhist master. He was born in
Korea
Korea is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, and smaller islands. Since the end of World War II in 1945, it has been politically Division of Korea, divided at or near the 38th parallel north, 3 ...
in 1944. When he was thirteen he met his teacher,
Seung Sahn Lee, and entered the
Hwa Gye temple in
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...
. When Kim was 21, his teacher sent him on a 100-day meditation retreat. During this retreat the art of
Shim Gum Do was revealed to Kim through his meditation and he attained Mind Sword enlightenment.
In 1971,
Shim Gum Do Founding Master, Chang Sik Kim officially introduced Shim Gum Do with the Proclamation of Shim Gum Do. Kim established the Korean Shim Gum Do Association and began teaching Shim Gum Do in Korea. In 1974, Kim came to the
United States
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and began teaching Shim Gum Do, forming clubs at MIT and Brown University. In 1978 he established the American Buddhist Shim Gum Do Association and in 1991 he established the World Shim Gum Do Association unifying all of the worldwide Shim Gum Do Associations. In 1990, Seung Sahn Lee, certified Kim’s enlightenment. This made him the 79th patriarch of this Dharma lineage.
[Stackhouse-Kim, M. J. (n.d.). Shim Gum Do Founding Master Great Zen Master Chang Sik Kim 79th Patriarch. Retrieved from ]
Until his death, Chang Sik Kim lived and taught at his temple, Shim Gwang Sa, the Mind Light Temple in
Brighton, Massachusetts. Kim wrote 22,000 Zen Poems from 1990 to 2008. He also published 11 books in English, two in Korean, one each in
Spanish
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...
,
French and
Japanese.
References
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1944 births
2021 deaths
Seon Buddhist monks
South Korean Zen Buddhists