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Kōbun Otogawa (乙川 弘文, Otogawa Kōbun) (February 1, 1938 – July 26, 2002) was an American Sōtō Zen priest.
Kōbun Chino Otogawa (乙川 弘文, Otogawa Kōbun) (1 de febrero de 1938-26 de julio de 2002) fue un sacerdote Sōtō Zen japonés nacionalizado estadounidense. Biografía
Kobun Chino Otogawa, Chief Priest of Jikoji, came to America in 1967 from Eiheiji Monastery in Japan. After serving as the resident teacher at Tassajara Monastery for two years, Kobun Roshi became the Chief Priest of Haiku Zendo in Los Altos, California.
27 de dic. de 2011 · Kobun Chino Otogawa, nacido en Kioto, pasó los primeros 30 años de su vida en Japón, tres de ellos en el templo principal de la secta Sōtō Zen. A finales de los 60 se trasladó a Estados Unidos con la misión de hacer entender mejor el Zen en occidente.
Kobun was a Zen priest and master of ceremonies. However, at heart he was an artist, a painter, calligrapher, poet, Shakuhachi player; he practiced Kyudo (jap. archery), liked to cook, was a good and fearless skier, a healer and astrologer, …. and was broke most of the time, even though some very wealthy people were his students.
Kobun Chino Otogawa. Remembering a warm-hearted roshi. By Stephan Bodian. Winter 2010. Photograph by Nicolas Schossleitner. By the time I reached graduate school in 1970, I was a born-again Zen Buddhist.
Kobun was re-adopted into the Otokawa lineage and he took that name. Consequently his first two children have the name 'Chino' and the second family has the name 'Otogawa'. In the 1990s Kobun returned to Japan and reconciled with his old master, Chino Roshi.
