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Niklaus Brantschen

Founder and Project Director Lic. phil. und lic. theol. Jesuit, priest and authorized Zen master

Niklaus Brantschen and Pia Gyger founded the Lassalle-Institut in 1995 under the name Institute for the Creation of Spiritual Consciousness in Business and Politics. They led the institute together until autumn of 2003. As a course leader and a leader of the project Jerusalem - Open City for Learning World Peace, Niklaus Brantschen remains closely connected with the Lassalle-Institut.

From 1973 to 1977 he was a member of the leadership team of the training center Haus Bad Schönbrunn and became its Director in 1977. From 1987 to 1993 he was a university chaplain in Zurich. During this time he completed his formal training as a Zen teacher in the Sambo-Kyodan tradition under the direction of Yamada Koun Roshi in Kamakura and was given the name Go-Un-Ken ("Cloud of Enlightenment"). He has been an authorized Zen master in the White Plum Sangha since 1999 and was given the additional Dharma name Jinshu ("Divine Source").

Together with Pia Gyger he founded the Lassalle Zen lineage in 2003. In 1993 he repositioned Haus Bad Schönbrunn as a center for spirituality and social consciousness and gave it the name Lassalle-Haus. He was Director of the Lassalle-Haus until autumn 2001.

He is an experienced seminar leader, a very popular speaker, and an author. His books include Auf dem Weg des Zen. Als Christ Buddhist (On the Zen Path. A Christian Buddhist) and Vom Vorteil, gut zu sein. Mehr Tugend - werniger Moral (The Advantage of Being Good).