Please join us after zazen on Wednesday, July 31st at 8 p.m. for a dharma talk by Cuong Lu.

Cuong Lu is  Buddhist teacher, scholar, and writer, born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1968.   He emigrated to Holland with his family in 1980.  He majored in East Asian studies at the University of Leiden, and in 1993 was ordained a monk at Plum Village in France under the guidance of Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2000, he was recognized as a teacher in the Lieu Quan line of the Linji School of Zen Buddhism. In 2015, he received a master’s degree in Buddhist Spiritual Care at Vrije University in Amsterdam. Lu is the founder of Mind Only School, in Gouda, the Netherlands, where he teaches Buddhist philosophy and psychology, specializing in Yogachara Buddhism combined with the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) School of Nagarjuna.  His book Buddha in Jail, published in March, 2019,  relates his experiences teaching meditation and bringing Buddhist teachings to men in prison in the Netherlands.    Books will be available for sale.