Background
He was born in of Korea in 1944.
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Chang Sik Kim
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Education
When he was thirteen he met his teacher, Seung Sahn Lee, and entered the Hwa Gye temple in Seoul. When Kim was 21, his teacher sent him on a 100 day meditation retreat.
Career
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 of Korea. In 1974, Kim came to the United States and began teaching Shim Gum Do, forming clubs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University.
In 1990, Seung Sahn Lee, certified Kim’s enlightenment.
This made him the 79th patriarch of this Dharma lineage. Currently Chang Sik Kim lives and teaches at his temple, Shim Gwang Sa, the Mind Light Temple in Brighton, Massachusetts.
He has also published 11 books in English, two in Korean, one each in Spanish, French and Japanese.
