Venerable Sirs of Plum Village

Bhikkhu Thich Chan Phap Dang.
Bhikkhu Thich Chan Phap Dang was born in Viet Nam in 1966. He is a Vietnamese-Armerican. In 1984, he joined a retreat in San Diego, practiced and became a student of  Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.  In 1989, he got his BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from San Diego State University. In 1990, while studying for his Master Degree in Aerospace Science,  he decided to come to Plum Village France for deeper training. He was ordained as a novice monk in 1990, a fully ordained monk in 1995 and a Dharma teacher in 1996. Since 1993, he has joined Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Sangha in teaching tours around the world, such as Germany, Denmark, Switzerland (1995), Israel and Greece (1999). He has led retreats in USA, Canada, Brazil, Viet Nam from 1999 – 2008… He currently practices at Tu Hieu Monastery in Viet Nam and is a member of a team of Plum Village Dharma teachers, responsible for training about 400 novice monks and nuns in Vietnam and teaching the Art of Mindful Living in Southeast Asia.

Bhikkhu Thich Chan Phap Kham
 Bhikkhu Thich Chan Phap Kham was born in  Viet Nam in 1962. He has been a student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh since 1987.  He was fully ordained as a monk in 2000 and has been a Dharma teacher since 2004.  After his migration to the United States in 1979, he studied then worked as an electronics engineer for 14 years. From 1986-1997, he managed Vietnamese Cultural Society of Metropolitan Washington, an organization he founded to inculcate Vietnamese culture and values to Vietnamese-American youth in the Washington DC area. Since April 2005,  he has been part of a team of Plum Village Dharma teachers, responsible for training about 400 novice monks and nuns in Vietnam and teaching the Art of Mindful Living in Southeast Asia. He now practices at Plum Village Mindfulness Practice Center in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong.