a friend on the path

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 lineage of Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904). He has also practiced Chan/Zen in the Plum Village and Dharma Drum Mountain lineages. 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 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. Prior to academia, he had two decades of professional experience as an occupational therapist and internationally certified meta-coach. Chris studies and practices Christian meditation in the tradition of Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk Fr. John Main OSB (1926-1982). He is inspired by the charisms and exemplary lives of St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226 AD), St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), and St. Bernadette of Lourdes (1844-1879) among several others.​

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He teaches and shares meditation as a spiritual friend who walks alongside pilgrims on their personal journeys of joy towards goodness, truth, and beauty of an authentic life in Christ.