The World Zen Fellowship offers Zen Meditation, Koan Practice and Dharma Teaching with Venerable Zen Master PoHwa Sunim in Alexandria, VA; Washington DC; New York City; and Colorado.



Dhyan (Zen, Ch'an, Seon) is seeing true nature, becoming enlightened, and saving others from life and death.  

Our Sangha teaches how to use eternal truth freely in daily affairs without biting the fruit of good and evil in any single moment.

The World Zen Fellowship has teaching centers in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC metropolitan area (The Potomac Zen Sangha), New York City, (Patriarchal Zen Society), Denver, Colorado (Colorado Zen Center), and in the Maryland suburbs near BWI Airport (Baltimore Zen Center).

Attain pure and harmonious enlightenment as taught by the world's great sages and share true love and compassion with all human beings through clear Lineage Zen Practice.

Lineage Zen is a special transmission, outside doctrinal teachings, from Buddha to lineage masters.

Ven. Zen Master Pohwa Sunim founded the World Zen Fellowship in the United States in 1994 to share mind-to-mind teaching.

Although ancient Buddha passed on a long time ago, grasses still grow in the Garden of Eden.

Come as you are and practice Zen.

Sunim's Dharma Talk

Please feel free to participate in a private Koan(Hwa-Du) interview and Dharma exchange with Master Pohwa via zengate1@yahoo.com or visit our link at the CyberZen Dharma Exchange Center.