Primary Point is the teaching journal of The Kwan Um School of Zen published since 1983. The Kwan Um School of Zen, is a nonprofit religious corporation. The founder, Zen Master Seung Sahn, 78th Patriarch in the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, was the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West. In 1972, after teaching in Korea and Japan for many years, he founded the Kwan Um sangha, which today has affiliated groups around the world. He gave transmission to Zen Masters, and inka (teaching authority) to senior students called Ji Do Poep Sas (dharma masters).