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Willigis Jäger is a German Benedictine monk and spiritual teacher. He is the founder of the School of Wisdom in Germany and the author of several books on spirituality and meditation. He is also a professor of philosophy at the University of Würzburg. Jäger was born in 1925 in Hösbach, Bavaria, Germany. He was ordained a priest in 1951 and joined the Benedictine order in 1952. He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Würzburg and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 1959. Jäger has been teaching meditation and spirituality since the 1960s. He founded the School of Wisdom in Germany in 1975 and has since taught meditation and spirituality to thousands of people. He has written several books on meditation and spirituality, including The Way of Silence, The Way of Transformation, and The Way of Meditation. Jäger is 95 years old and has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

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Occupation Benedictine friar Mystic Zen master
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 7 March, 1925
Birthday 7 March
Birthplace Hösbach, Bavaria, Germany
Date of death March 20, 2020
Died Place Holzkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Nationality Germany

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2000

Catholic authorities questioned his teaching starting in 2000, and he was banned from teaching in public events and in writing in 2002. He left the abbey in 2003 but continued his work. That year, he founded the Benediktushof, an inter-religious centre of meditation and awareness, where he lived and taught. In 2007, he established a foundation named West-Östliche Weisheit (West-East Wisdom), propagating the spirituality taught at the Benediktushof.

1972

From 1972, he studied Zen in Japan for six years with Hugo E. Lassalle and Yamada Ko-Un Roshi, entering Yamada's convent in 1975. He gained authorisation to teach Zen in 1980. Jäger taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition (being given the Japanese name Koun-ken). He founded a centre of Zen and Contemplation at the Münsterschwarzach Abbey in 1983. In 1980, an ecumenical study group of contemplative prayer was founded, which became the Würzburg School of Contemplation. Jäger taught as part of Sanbo Kyodan until 2009, and then continued his own sangha independently.

1925

Willigis Jäger (German: [ˈvɪlɪgɪs ˈjɛːgɐ]; 7 March 1925 – 20 March 2020) was a German Catholic priest and Benedictine monk. He was a Zen master who trained and taught in the Sanbo Kyodan tradition. Jäger founded a centre of Zen and contemplation at the Münsterschwarzach Abbey in 1983, and his own Benediktushof, an inter-faith centre of meditation and awareness, in 2003.

Jäger was born on 7 March 1925 in Hösbach. He entered the Benedictine order at Münsterschwarzach Abbey in 1946, and studied philosophy and theology from 1948. In 1952, he was ordained as a priest. Jäger worked as a teacher in the abbey's secondary school. From 1960, he was responsible for mission and development at the Bund der Deutschen Katholischen Jugend youth association. The same year, he began to work for Missio, an ecumenical missionary movement which sent him on trips to countries including Japan.

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