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|name = Su Bong<br/>수봉
|image= Su Bong, Seung Sahn, Dae Gak.JPG
|caption = From left to right: Su Bong, Seung Sahn, [[Dae Gak]]
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1943|1|7}}
|birth_place = [[Kona, Hawaii]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|7|17|1943|1|7}}
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|religion = [[Zen Buddhism]]
|school = [[Kwan Um School of Zen]]
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|title = [[Soen Sa Nim]]
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|predecessor = [[Seung Sahn]]
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Zen Master, Su Bong Su Nim, aka See Hoy Liau, lived at the Los Angeles Zen Center of the KUZS from 1980-1988.  At that time he was kicked out of the Zen Center by Zen Master Soen Sa Nim many times due to his continual affairs with Jame Maclaughlin.  He was kicked out because it didn't look quite right that a supposedly celibate Monk was carrying on an affair with a white girl young enough to be his daughter.
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'''Su Bong''' ({{langx|ko|수봉}}; January 7, 1943—July 17, 1994) was a [[Soen Sa Nim]] in the [[Kwan Um School of Zen]], the designated heir of [[Seung Sahn]]'s lineage. Of both [[Korean people|Korean]] and [[Chinese people|Chinese]] heritage,<ref name="Batchelor">Batchelor, 222</ref> he was born in [[Kona, Hawaii]]. Su Bong began his practice with Seung Sahn in 1974, helping to establish many Zen groups and temples for the lineage in the years that followed. In 1981 he received [[Dharma transmission|inka]] from Seung Sahn, making him a [[Ji Do Poep Sa Nim]] (JDPSN) in the lineage and, in 1983, he was ordained a [[sunim]] and given the [[Buddhist name]] Mu Deung.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080511021132/http://www.subong.org.hk/zm_subong_e.htm] He received [[Dharma transmission]] on October 11, 1992. On July 17, 1994, Su Bong died of unknown causes at a retreat while conducting [[kong-an]] interviews in [[Hong Kong]].<ref name="Bon Yeon">Obituary</ref> Today the Kwan Um School of Zen has a practice center in his name located in [[Hong Kong]] and named [http://www.subong.org.hk Su Bong Zen Monastery].
==See also==
*[[Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States]]
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==References==
*{{cite book| last =Batchelor| first =Stephen| author-link =Stephen Batchelor (author)| title =The Awakening of the West: The Encounter of Buddhism and Western Culture| publisher =Parallax Press| year =1994| isbn = 0-938077-69-4| oclc =30078996}}
*{{cite web| last =Bon Yeon| author-link =Bon Yeon| title =Obituary - Zen Master Su Bong (1943-1994)| publisher =Kwan Um School of Zen| url =http://www.kwanumzen.org/primarypoint/v11n2-1994-summer-byzm-obituaryforsbzm.html| access-date =2008-01-03| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20051223221858/http://kwanumzen.org/primarypoint/v11n2-1994-summer-byzm-obituaryforsbzm.html| archive-date =2005-12-23}}
==Further reading==
*{{cite book| last =Dobisz| first =Jane| author-link =Bon Yeon| title =The Wisdom of Solitude: A Zen Retreat in the Woods| publisher =HarperCollins| year =2004| url =https://archive.org/details/wisdomofsolitude00jane| isbn =0-06-008595-9| url-access =registration}}
==External links==
*[http://www.subong.org.hk Su Bong Zen Monastery]
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