Dušan Silváši JDPSN received inka from Zen Master Gu Ja in September 2022. He was born in Košice, Slovakia. During his studies after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he started to seek a way that would make sense to him. In 1992, he encountered Kwan Um Zen teaching and started to practice intensively, first with Zen Master Wu Bong and Zen Master Dae Kwang, and later with Oleg Šuk JDPSN. Dušan works as an IT specialist, and has also been a karate teacher for many years. He has been the abbot of Košice Zen Center for many years. He has two children with his wife Olga—also a longtime Zen practitioner—and together they have been working on spreading the teaching of Zen to a much wider audience through yoga and karate, and recently also with IT professionals.