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However, a series of events forced Sunim to leave the country in the early winter of 1965.
In 1978, Zen Master Seung Sahn began traveling to Europe and new Zen centers quickly appeared in Poland and other countries.
He decided in late winter of 1978 that a temple should be bought for the Koreans.
Gathering more followers, the newly-formed Providence Zen Center (PZC) moved to its current site in Cumberland in 1979, with many of the students helping to build its new center.
Photo: The first retreat in Ann Arbor at a rented apartment 2215 Packard Street, December 1981.
That’s how Spring Wind Newsletter and later Spring Wind: Buddhist Cultural Forum magazine was born as a product of cottage industry [in 1981].
After an apartment and then a rented house on Arch Street, the Ann Arbor temple found its permanent home on Packard Road in the summer of 1982.
Photo: Ordination of Dharma Teachers (Sukha & Sujata) and Precept-taking Ceremony with Wolha Sunim, October 15, 1983 at 46 Gwynne Avenue, Toronto
Over the years, more centers and groups were founded around the world, and in 1983, this growth led to the formal organization of the Kwan Um School of Zen, with the purpose of providing cohesion and administrative support to all of its centers.
Sunim and other temple members spent many hours under hot sun cleaning the soil [in 1983].
Toan attended the Yongmaeng Jeongin retreat with Sunim in December 1984.
Photo: Precept-taking Ceremony at the Ann Arbor Temple, August 17, 1985
In 1985, Seung Sahn officially founded the Kwan Um School of Zen, from which time it began to spread nationally and internationally to its current scope of 34 centers in the United States and 57 centers worldwide, headquartered in Cumberland, RI. Zen Master Seung Sahn also authored several books.
Photo: Conference on Zen Buddhism in North America at the Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple (July 14–19, 1986)
Peace Camp was conceived by Sunim in the hot, muggy summer of 1986.
Photo: Summer Buddhist Peace Camp, 1989
Photo Bottom: Conference on Buddhism in Canada was held at the Toronto Zen Buddhist Temple, 86 Vaughan Road, July 1990
When the first snow fell in late November [1992] seven of us sat around a wood stove for Sunday morning meditation.
In February 2002, the Toronto temple moved to a much larger property in the downtown area.
Photo: Opening Ceremony for the Mexico City Temple, December 20, 2003
Today, the Kwan Um School of Zen has centers on every continent and over 35 authorized Zen masters (Soen Sa’s) and Dharma masters (Ji Do Poep Sa’s). Zen Master Seung Sahn died in 2004.
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