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Cuong Lu was born in Vietnam in 1968 and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1980. He is a former monk and lived a monastic life for sixteen years. As an internationally published author, his books have been translated into multiple languages.
In 1993 he became a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh and in 2000 he was officially recognized as a Dharma teacher within the Plum Village tradition. He is part of the ninth generation of the Liễu Quán lineage and the 43rd generation of the Lâm Tế (Linji) Zen lineage.
In 2011 he founded the Mind Only Institute and that same year co-founded Buddhist Chaplaincy Services (BGV) under the Dutch Ministry of Justice, where he later worked for six years as a prison chaplain.
In 1993 he became a student of Thích Nhất Hạnh and in 2000 he was officially recognized as a Dharma teacher within the Plum Village tradition. He is part of the ninth generation of the Liễu Quán lineage and the 43rd generation of the Lâm Tế (Linji) Zen lineage.
In 2011 he founded the Mind Only Institute and that same year co-founded Buddhist Chaplaincy Services (BGV) under the Dutch Ministry of Justice, where he later worked for six years as a prison chaplain.
In 2022, he founded what he describes as an “Invisible Monastic Zen Order” in south-central France, dedicated to training practitioners in an engaged, non-institutional form of monastic practice.
Cuong Lu teaches internationally and was a keynote speaker at Burning Refuge: Buddhism and Social-Spiritual Liberation, an inaugural conference held at Harvard University in March 2024.
Cuong Lu teaches internationally and was a keynote speaker at Burning Refuge: Buddhism and Social-Spiritual Liberation, an inaugural conference held at Harvard University in March 2024.
