Haemin Sunim

Haemin Sunim is one of the most influential Zen Buddhist teachers and writers in South Korea, where his books have sold more than three million copies and are popular as guides not only to mediation but also to overcoming the challenges of veryday life. Born in South Korea, he came to the United States to study film, only to find himself pulled into the spiritual life. Educated at Harvard, Princeton, and the University of California at Berkeley, he received formal monastic training in Korea and taught Buddhism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lives in Seoul when not traveling to share his teachings.