Teachers
The Teacher
Simon Child Chuan-fa Jing-hong is the Teacher of the WCF. He is a lineage holder in the Dharma Drum lineages of Linji and Caodong Chan, transmitted through the late Chan Master Sheng Yen who was based at the Chan Meditation Center in New York city, Dharma Drum Retreat Center in upstate New York, and also in Dharma Drum Mountain in Taiwan.
He trained from 1981 with the late Chan Master John Crook, Chuan-deng Jing-di, founding Teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship.