Kōbun Otogawa ~ Facing Buddha ~ Zen Buddhism

Kōbun Otogawa (乙川 弘文, Otogawa Kōbun) (February 1, 1938 – July 26,
2002) was an American Sōtō Zen priest. Otogawa, who preferred to
be called by his first name, rather than by either of the
Japanese Zen honorifics: sensei (teacher) or roshi (master), came
to San Francisco, California, United States, from Japan in 1967
in response to an invitation from Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, serving
as his assistant at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center until 1970.
Otogawa was the son of a Sōtō Zen priest and was ordained a
priest himself at the age of 12. He did undergraduate studies at
Komazawa University and received a master's degree in Mahayana
Buddhism from Kyoto University. He then trained for three years
at Eiheiji. Among his primary teachers was the unconventional Zen
master Kodo Sawaki, known as the last of the unsui, or wandering
monks.


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