a friend on the Way

Chris Kang Ph.D. began meditating from the age of five. From the mid-1980s, he studied with eminent Buddhist masters in the Early Buddhist Tradition; the Indo-Tibetan Mahayana transmission of Sutra, Tantra, and Mahamudra; and the Vajrayana Dzogchen lineages of Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904) and Rigdzin Changchub Dorje (1863-1963) as well as Yungdrung Bön Dzogchen. He has also practiced Chan/Zen in the Plum Village and Dharma Drum Mountain lineages; and has been initiated and trained in an authentic modern lineage of Indic Tantra. Acharya Godwin Samararatne (1932-2000) from Sri Lanka whom he met in the early 1990s is his heart teacher.

Since 1997, he has taught the Buddhadharma and led non-sectarian meditation retreats in Singapore and in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. Chris was baptized as a Christian in 2014 following his unplanned faith encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. In 2020, he founded Awarezen after retiring as a university professor. Apart from academia, he has two decades of professional experience as an occupational therapist and internationally certified meta-coach. Chris has studied and practiced Christian meditation in the tradition of Fr. John Main OSB (1926-1982), a Roman Catholic priest and monk of the Benedictine order. 

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The Lord has called Chris into a threefold mission: (1) teaching contemplative practice; (2) ecumenical engagement; and (3) interfaith dialogue. He teaches and shares meditation as a spiritual friend walking alongside pilgrims on their own journeys of joy towards the goodness, truth, and beauty of their full humanity, rooted in and orbiting around the One - Jesus Christ.