ZEN MASTER SOENG HYANG (Barbara Rhodes) is the School Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen and a retired hospice nurse. One of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s first American students, she received dharma transmission from him in 1992. Rhodes helped found Providence Zen Center and lived there for seventeen years, serving in a number of administrative capacities. She has a daughter and lives with her partner, Mary, in California.
Barbara Rhodes
ZEN MASTER SOENG HYANG (Barbara Rhodes) is the School Zen Master of the Kwan Um School of Zen and a retired hospice nurse. One of Zen Master Seung Sahn’s first American students, she received dharma transmission from him in 1992. Rhodes helped found Providence Zen Center and lived there for seventeen years, serving in a number of administrative capacities. She has a daughter and lives with her partner, Mary, in California.