Our Guiding Teacher

Timothy Lerch, JDPSN, is the guiding teacher of the Zen Group of Pittsburgh and the Northern Light Zen Center in Brunswick Maine. He is also active with the Brown Zen Community at Brown University and the Wheaton College Zen Group, and visits prisons in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. From 1996 to 2000 he was resident director of the Dharma Sound Zen Center in Seattle. Prior to joining the Kwan Um School he trained in the Japanese and Vietnamese Zen traditions. He received Inka from Zen Master Seung Sahn on April 7, 2001.

From the Kwan Um School of Zen web site.