Event class: school, buddhist, founded, first, japan, india, became, training, master, karate

Events with high posterior probability

Seung Sahn	The Kwan Um School of Zen was founded in 1983 and -- unlike more traditional practice in Korea -- Seung Sahn allowed the laity in the lineage to wear the robe of a Buddhist monk.
Kim Poirier	Professionally trained in yoga, she has studied numerology, healing, and nutrition, she has been the international leader of Sadhana at the Institute of Yoga Therapy in 2006.
Marcel Clause	In 1978, Clause became the third person to be promoted by the (unitary) Belgian Judo Federation to the judo rank of 6th dan.
Seikichi Iha	In 1967, after receiving another promotion to the rank of 7th Dan, he was sent to Los Angeles, California to instruct there.
Savitha Sastry	Music Academy Chennai (2013) Yudh : Three perspectives, one truth | Yudh at the Music Academy Chennai (2013) Savitha Sastry was born in Hyderabad, and later lived in Mumbai before her family relocated to their home town of Chennai.
Leong Sin Nam	The Ipoh Chinese Relief Camp was established under the leadership of Leong Sin Nam and remained in existence till 1923.
Ip Chun	Ip Chun received a Fellowship (FSMA) from the Society of Martial Arts (U. K.), the only professional and Educational Charity to introduce the first degree program in martial arts in the world, from its Founder and President Prof. Eugene de Silva Ph. D., FRSA in 2000.
Nyanatiloka	In 1903, at the age of 25, Nyanatiloka briefly visited Sri Lanka and then proceeded in order to Burma to meet the English Buddhist monk Bhikkhu Ananda Metteyya.
Kenwa Mabuni	By 1929, Mabuni had moved to Osaka on the mainland, to become a full-time karate instructor of a style he originally called Hanko-ryū, or' half-hard style'.
Richard De Smet	Returning to India in March 1954, De Smet began to teach at the newly opened centre for philosophical studies of the Jesuits at De Nobili College, Pune.
David Dangerfield	Most recently Dangerfield was promoted to Rokudan (6th degree black belt) in the art of Aikido at the 100 years of Aikido celebrations in Malaysia 2012.
Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah	On 22 May 1914, Barakatullah returned to San Francisco with Bhagwan Singh alias Natha Singh, the granthi (priest) of the Sikh temple at Hong Kong and joined the Yugantar Ashram and worked with Taraknath Das.
Seung Sahn	That following year he went on to found the Chogye International Zen Center of New York City, and then in 1977 Empty Gate Zen Center.
Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle	In 1956, Enomiya-Lassalle began studying Zen with Harada Daiun Sogaku.
Dov Lior	thumb | 250px | Rabbi Dov Lior (center) in a meeting with students of Machon Meir at his house in -LSB- -LSB- Kiryat Arba in June 2008 -RSB- -RSB- Lior is a Religious Zionist leader and student of Zvi Yehuda Kook, son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook.
Samuel Kwok	In his bid to promote Traditional Wing Chun and his Si-Fu, in 1981 Master Kwok held the first of many seminars in the UK for Grandmaster Ip Chun.
Eido Tai Shimano	In February, 2011, the Zen Studies Society announced that Eido Shimano no longer would teach Zen under the auspices of their organization.
Tamotsu Miyahira	In 1991, he gave a demonstration at the International Karate Championships hosted by Morio Higaonna's International Goju-ryu Karate Association.
Stephan Berwick	Previously, Stephan completed primary research on Chen Taijiquan at Taiji's birthplace, Chenjiagou in 2000, resulting in seminal publications such as'' Chen Taijiquan's Generation X & Y Masters Exposed'' -- the first article to appear in the American martial art press, in KFTC, about emerging Chen family masters, including Chen Bing and Chen Ziqiang and'' Chen Village Under the Influence of Chen Xiaoxing'' -- the first major profile of the top Chen Village master, in the JMA.
Jayson Vemoa	Jayson Vemoa started Kyokushin Karate (IKO1 Matsui) in 2005 studying under Shihan Ryu Narushima (Japan) at the newly opened Ichigeki Academy Dojo in Tokyo.
Takamiyama Daigor?	He subsequently opened his own training stable, Azumazeki-beya, in 1986, the first and so far only foreign born former wrestler to do so.
Mel Weitsman	In 1984, Weitsman received Dharma transmission from Suzuki Roshi's son and Dharma Heir, Hoitsu Suzuki Roshi, Abbot of Rinso-In Temple in Yaizu, Japan.
Triratna Man Tuladhar	Triratna Man was also an activist in the movement to revive Theravada Buddhism in Nepal ; and in 1924, became a member of the Buddhist Relief Association founded by Buddhist scholar and leader Dharmaditya Dharmacharya.
David Frawley	Rajiv Mehrotra (2003) of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in New Delhi, India, interviewed Frawley as one of twenty important spiritual teachers in his book The Mind of the Guru.
Anders Behring Breivik	According to the Lodge records, Breivik took part in a total of four meetings between his initiation in February 2007 and his exclusion from the order -- one each to receive the first, second and third degree, and one other meeting.
Hwang Hyun Chul	In 1995, during the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Moo Duk Kwan the elder Hwang officially renamed the art from Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan to Soo Bahk Do, with the younger Hwang being named the president of the renamed U. S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation.
Men Nguyen	In 1991 one of his students gave him the nickname'' The Master,'' and now he is widely known as'' Men the Master.''
Swami Subodhananda	After the passing away of Sri Ramakrishna in 1886, Subodh left his home and joined the monastery in Baranagar, started by Narendranath Dutta, who later became famous as Swami Vivekananda.
Michael Vetter	In 1973 he returned to Japan, where he stayed for ten years as a Zen monk.
Kyongwon Ahn	The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) awarded Ahn his Master Instructor certification in 1977.
Jane Lee (actress)	Lee has studied and practiced yoga since 1998 and now professionally teaches privately and at several yoga studios.
Carlos "Caique" Elias	Carlos Henrique'' Caique'' Elias (born October 30, 1957) is a 7th degree red-and-black belt master of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ).
Liu Yongfu	On 21 December 1873 Liu Yongfu and around 600 Black Flags, marching beneath an enormous black banner, approached the west gate of Hanoi.
Mani Madhava Chakyar	thumb | left | Guru Mani Madhava Chakyar and his troop performing'' Thoranayudham'' Koodiyattam (1962 -- Chennai).
William Puffer	When Chung wished to bring his wife and children over from China but could not afford the C$ 500 head tax, Puffer paid it ; Chung's family arrived in Lacombe in 1908, making her one of the first Chinese women in Alberta.
Dae Gak	He received Dharma transmission from Seung Sahn in 1994, and now teaches independently of Seung Sahn's Kwan Um School of Zen.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche	The 7th Dzogchen Ponlop, Rinpoche (Karma Sungrap Ngedon Tenpa Gyaltsen, b. 1965) is an abbot of Dzogchen Monastery, president of Nalandabodhi, the founder of Nitartha Institute, a leading Tibetan Buddhist scholar, and a meditation master.
Piya Tan	Piya Tan Beng Sin (; born 20 August 1949 in Malacca, Malaysia), also known as Piya Tan or Piyasilo (monastic name), is a Peranakan full-time lay Buddhist writer-cum-teacher in Singapore.
Paul Starling	Whilst at the Japan Karate do College (Nihon Karate do Senmon Gakko) where Starling trained full time for one year in 1973, he was taught by Grandmaster Gogen Yamaguchi (Goju Kai), Grandmaster Hironori Otsuka (Wado Ryu), Grandmaster Iwata Manzao (Shito Ryu), Grandmaster Tamae (Rembukan), and Grandmaster Gansho Motokatsu Inoue (Ryukyu Kobujitsu Hozon Shinko Kai).
Lokanatha (Italian Buddhist Monk)	Shortly he was on pilgrimage to the places sacred to Buddhism and was ordained a Buddhist monk in Burma in 1925.
Samuel Kwok	In 1995 once again Grandmaster Ip Ching was invited by Master Kwok to the UK, to conduct several seminars across the country, but this time he was accompanied by Grandmaster Chu Shong Tin, one of the first students in Hong Kong of the late Grandmaster Ip Man.
Ch?shin Chibana	Chibana was the last of the pre-World War karate masters, also called the'' Last Warrior of Shuri'' He was the first to establish a Japanese ryu name for an Okinawan karate style, calling Itosu's karate'' Shorin-Ryu'' (or'' the small forest style'') in 1928.
Chime Rinpoche	Gaining British citizenship in 1965 he taught extensively throughout Europe and established Marpa House the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre in England.
David Dangerfield	In 1990 he attained his Shodan (first degree black belt).
Isamu Takeshita	In 1935, Takeshita gave a demonstration of Ueshiba's art at the first Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai (Society for the Promotion of Japanese Classical Martial Arts) demonstration.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee	In 1991 he moved to Northern California and founded the Golden Sufi Center to help make available the teachings of this Sufi lineage.
Nyanatiloka	In September 1911 Alexandra David-Néel came and studied Pali under Nyanatiloka at the Island Hermitage while staying with the monastery's chief supporter, Coroner Wijeyesekera.
Pramukh Swami Maharaj	Pramukh Swami Maharaj () (born Shantilal Patel, 7 December 1921 ; ordained Shastri Narayanswarupdas) is the current guru and is regarded as the fifth spiritual successor of Swaminarayan by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, an international Hindu socio-spiritual organization.
Abhishiktananda	On 30 June 1973, Abhishiktananda, along with the then President of the Divine Life Society, Swami Chidananda Saraswati, arranged on the banks of the Ganga in Rishikesh, a very simple rite of sannyasa-diksha (initiation into sannyasa) for Chaduc, after which he became known as Swami Ajatananda Saraswati.
Matt Thornton (martial artist)	This began an intensive immersion in BJJ, which included training under Rickson, from whom he received his blue belt in 1992, and later training under Chris Haueter who subsequently awarded him purple, brown and black belts in BJJ.
Yang Jun (martial artist)	In August 1999 he moved to Seattle with his wife Fang Hong () to establish the International Association there, and in September 1999, he started the Yang Cheng Fu Tai Chi Chuan Center in Seattle's International District (Chinatown).
Yun Dukan	A contemporary of martial art masters Hwang Kee, Nam Tae Hi, Jung Won Sun, Chang Gedo and Kim Il Woong, he brought his style of taekwondo to the United States in 1968.
Jong Soo Park	In 1974, Park and several other ITF masters demonstrated taekwondo in Toronto -- then being promoted as'' the new home of the ITF'' by Choi.
Yasuro Kikuchi	Kikuchi founded the prestigious Ryokusei Academy in 1975, which has become one of the most prolific go schools in Japan.
Marcel Clause	In 1997 Clause became the first Belgian (together with Théo Guldemont) to be awarded the high judo rank of 8th dan.
Mirra Alfassa	She came to Sri Aurobindo's spiritual retreat on 29 March 1914 in Pondicherry, India.
Eddie Townsend	He became Fuji's trainer, and his name first became known in the Japanese boxing world when Fuji became world champion in 1967.
Ajahn Khemadhammo	In 1984, at the invitation of a group of Buddhist meditators that he had been visiting monthly for some years, he moved to Banner Hill near Kenilworth and formed the Buddha-Dhamma Fellowship.
John Tiller	John Tiller opened a dance school at 226 West 72nd Street with offices and a training studio run by Mary Read ; a Head Tiller Girl from England who had been one of the 1916 Sunshine Girls in America, She trained American pupils as well as the girls from the United Kingdom.
Hassan Al-Qazwini	In early 1993, Al-Qazwini was invited by the Islamic Center of America, oldest Shi'a mosque in the United States to be the guest speaker for the Arabic program during the upcoming holy month of Ramadhan, where the community in Dearborn, Michigan quickly found him responsive to their spiritual and religious needs.
Tetsugen Bernard Glassman	In 1996 Glassman, with his wife Sandra Jishu Holmes, founded the Zen Peacemaker Order (today the Zen Peacemaker Circle).
Ajahn Sucitto	In 1979 he was one of the small group of monks, led by Ajahn Sumedho, who established Cittaviveka, Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, in West Sussex.
David Kaczynski	In 2012, David was appointed executive director of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located in Woodstock, NY.
Jan Plas	He founded the Mejiro Gym in 1978 after learning kickboxing from Kenji Kurosaki, a Japanese martial artist who founded the original Mejiro Gym in Mejiro, Tokyo.
Robert Trias	In 1948 he founded the United States Karate Association (USKA), the first karate organization on the US mainland.
David Steindl-Rast	With permission of his abbot, Damasus Winzen, in 1966 he was officially delegated to pursue Buddhist - Christian dialogue and began to study Zen with masters Haku'un Yasutani, Soen Nakagawa, Shunryu Suzuki and Eido Tai Shimano.
Shizuo Imaizumi	During that time in spring of 1972 he was instructed by Tohei, who was still serving as head instructor at the Hombu Dojo, to travel to Los Angeles in the United States to teach aikido and ki-principles under Roderick T. Kobayashi Sensei, who was the chief Instructor of the Western States Aikido Federation at this time.
Ricardo Liborio	Liborio received his black belt from Carlson Gracie in 1993 at the age of 26.
Ratna Vajra Rinpoche	On the 14th day of the 11th Tibetan lunar month, the anniversary of Sakya Pandita (December 20, 1980), he began to receive the cycle of the precious uncommon Lam Dre teachings from HH the Sakya Trizin for the first time at Sakya Thubten Namgyal Ling monastery in Puruwala, India.
Ji Han-Jae	He began his martial arts training in 1949 under the direction of Choi Yong-Sool (), and was Dan # 14 under Choi.
Wilton Hack	This interest in Eastern philosophy coincided with an involvement in two educational establishments in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) : On returning from England to Australia around 1892, Hack visited the Buddhist girls' school run by Mrs Marie Musaeus Higgins in Colombo (its first principal was a Victorian, Kate F. Pickett, who died shortly after taking up the position), and was sufficiently impressed to promise funds for a more suitable schoolhouse than the mud hut they were using.
Ruth Fuller Sasaki	She stayed in Kyoto for most of the rest of her life, becoming in 1958 the first foreigner to be a priest of a Rinzai Zen temple, and the only westerner, and the only woman, yet to be a priest of a Daitoku-ji temple.
Sharon Gannon	In 2009 she began organizing the Jivamukti Tribe Gathering, a yoga conference that focuses on the Jivamukti Method where the advanced Certified teachers from around the world present.
Mel Weitsman	Interested in religion from an early age, he started practicing at the San Francisco Zen Center under Shunryu Suzuki in 1964.
Ajaib Singh	In 1940, when he was 14 years old, Ajaib met his first major teacher, Bishan Das, a sadhu who came from the spiritual lineage of Sri Chand, a son of Guru Nanak.
Mark Lesly	Mark was the USA Taekwondo Forms Champion for 4th Degree Black Belts and higher in 1996.
Sherman Harrill	He was awarded his first degree black belt (shodan) in 1960.
Geshe Gyeltsen	Gyeltsen founded the Thubten Dhargye Ling Buddhist Center in Los Angeles (later Long Beach) in 1978.
Mirok Li	In 1905 he attended the village school and was taught in the ancient Korean style (sodang).
Christopher Hills	In 1962 Ghose took Hills to Sri Aurobindo Ashram for a personal audience with Aurobindo's successor, spiritual head of the ashram, Mirra Alfassa, known as'' The Mother''.
Prem Rawat	Once called'' Perfect Master'', Rawat abandoned his'' almost divine status as guru'' In 1983 the Divine Light Mission was renamed Elan Vital and Rawat closed the last western ashrams, marking the end of his use of Indian methods for international objectives.
Samu Sunim	He received a more traditional authorization as a Zen master from Weolha Sunim in 1983.
Tan Xu	Until 1948, he had constructed and restored more than ten temples, among which are : Surangama Temple (lengyansi) in Yingkou ; Ultimate Bliss Temple (jilesi) in Harbin ; Prajna Temple (boresi) in Changchun ; Tranquil Mountain Temple (zhanshansi) in Qingdao ; Amitabha Temple (mituosi) in Jiling ; Great Compassion Temple (dabeiyuan) in Tianjin Prajna Temple (Boresi) and Eternal Peace Temple (Yong' ansi) in Shenyang.
Maurine Stuart	She was one of the first female Zen masters to teach in the United States, and in 1979 became president and spiritual director of the Cambridge Buddhist Association.
Minoru Higa	In November 1998 he visited Italy for the first time as a guest of honour, accompanied by other eminent masters, in order to preside over and contribute, with displays and training sessions, to the international competitions of Shōrin-ryū Kyudōkan Karatedo, hosted in Palermo by the Italian affiliate of the school.
Rhee Ho Nam	He was a temple worker in the Seoul Korea Temple when it opened in 1985.
Cecilia Tan	She holds a black belt in tae kwon do, receiving her second degree (dan) in June 2009, and is a certified technician in Okazaki Restorative Massage.
Michael Zimmerman (jurist)	com / In December 2006 he received Dharma transmission from Dennis Genpo Merzel, giving him authority to teach Zen to others.
Chin Kung	Chin Kung, AM (淨空 ; pinyin : Jìngkōng) (b. 1927) is a Buddhist monk from the Mahayana tradition.
Vishnudevananda Saraswati	Shortly thereafter, in 1961, he called into life the first yoga vacation, which has since become a tradition in the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and Ashrams.
Barkha Madan	Impressed by Buddhist ideologies, in November 2012 she had her ordination to become a Buddhist nun and changed her name to Ven.
Pat E. Johnson	Pat E. Johnson (born 1939, Niagara Falls, New York) is a 9th degree black belt in the art of American Tang Soo Do.
Nigamananda Paramahansa	In 1903 he met a'' yogi guru'' (yoga master) - whom he called'' Sumeru Dasji'' (otherwise known as Koot Hoomi Lal Singh or Kuthumi).
Chu Guiting	In 1912, Chu Guiting began to study Xingyiquan (Shape and Mind Boxing) and Baguazhang (Eight Trigram Boxing) under Grandmaster Li Cunyi, who recognized him as his official disciple.
Kim Yoon-Sang	In 1973, along with his friend Lee Yong-Soo (), Kim travelled to Daegu to train under the founder of hapkido, Choi Yong-Sool.
Ram Singh Yadav	For the 2012 Summer Olympics, Ram underwent training for 45 days at a high-altitude training centre in Coonoor town of Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu.
Ali Akbar Khan	In 1956, Khan founded the Ali Akbar College of Music in Calcutta, with the mission to teach and spread Indian classical music.
Paradorn Srichaphan	In November 2005, Paradorn spent a week as a Buddhist monk in a temple outside Bangkok.
Adam Kayoom	In 2009 he was awarded his black belt by Ricardo Liborio -- leader and founder of American Top Team.
Yun Dukan	In 1968, Yun, with the encouragement of both Choi and Shim, came to Manitowoc, Wisconsin and began teaching taekwondo at the Manitowoc Young Men's Christian Association as part of the ITF's effort to bring the martial art to the Americas.