Prime Dharma Master Kyongsan
Venerable Kyongsan (Jang Eung-cheol, b. 1940)
is the fifth Prime Dharma Master of Won- Buddhism. He entered the Won-Buddhist faith at the age of twenty and graduated from the Department of Won-Buddhist Studies at Wonkwang University in 1968. He served as president of the Youngsan College of S n Studies, executive director of administration for Won-Buddhism, and director of the Jung-ang Training Center of Won-Buddhism before being inaugurated as the fifth Prime Dharma Master in 2006. Today, his work includes the great Buddha offering of spreading the dharma, personalization of the doctrine, extension of grace, operating according to the Won-Buddhist regulations, and sowing blessings for the coming centuries. His books include The Moon of the Mind Rises in Empty Space, Freedom from Transgressive Karma, The Functioning of a Buddha’s Mind, The Shore of Freedom, The Middle Way: The Way of the Sage, and Herding the Ox of Our Mind