Master Bon Yeon (Jane McLaughlin-Dobisz)
and answers a question about daily Zen meditation and the benefits of long meditation retreats.
BIOGRAPHY OF JANE DOBISZ
Jane Dobisz (Zen Master Bon Yeon) has been teaching and leading retreats worldwide since 1991. She is a Guiding Teacher of the Cambridge Zen Center in Massachusetts, one of the largest residential zen centers in the United States.
Jane Dobisz began practicing Buddhism in 1977 in Kathmandu, Nepal. She spent the first few years of her training in the Tibetan style.
After meeting Seung Sahn, she continued training as his student until the present. In 1991 she received inka from him and began teaching in Eastern and Western Europe. She received formal transmission in April of 2000.
Jane’s recent book is entitled One Hundred Days of Solitude. The main emphasis of her teaching is incorporating Zen into one’s everyday life. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, daughter, and son.
