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Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi, Zen teacher and holder of the World Wisdom Chair at Naropa University, died in a drowning accident in Switzerland on July 26 while he was attempting to rescue his five-year-old daughter, Maya, who also died. He was sixty-four years old. The last of the original Soto Zen teachers who established practice centers on the ...
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. Kobun and Katrin moved to Santa Cruz in the 1990s, where they lived in a home Kobun named Raigho-in, a centuries-old style Japanese farmhouse newly built and owned by Ken Wing and Hollis DeLancy.
乙川弘文 Otogawa Kōbun (1938-2002) Kobun was born on February 1, 1938 in the small town of Kamo, Niigata Prefecture, in northwestern Japan, to a family from a long line of Soto Zen priests. The youngest of six children, he spent his childhood at the family temple, Jokoji. When he was eight years old his father died of cancer.
27 de dic. de 2016 · Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi's personal, direct, and clear talks that are recorded here are impeccable, informative, practical, and speak directly to the heart. He was described by someone who knew him as "the real thing." I recommend, in addition to slowly and gradually perusing this book, watching videos of his talks to experience this for yourself.
Kobun Chino Otogawa made great strides during his lifespan in bringing Zen Buddhism from Japan to the West. He was born in a family temple and was trained as a priest in the Soto school of Zen Buddhism. He studied at Komazawa University in Kyoto earning an MA in Buddhist studies, ...
12 de mar. de 2012 · Kobun Chino Otogawa, born in Kyoto, spent the first 30 years of his life in Japan, three of them in the main temple of the Sōtō Zen sect. At the end of the 60s he moved to United States with the mission to have a better understanding of Zen in the Western world. Besides Zen meditation, the specialties of Kobun were writing haiku poems and ...
