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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.
Kōbun Otogawa (乙川 弘文, Otogawa Kōbun) (February 1, 1938 – July 26, 2002) [1] was an American Sōtō Zen priest . Biography.
Houn Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi – his students and friends simply called him KOBUN – was born on February 1st. 1938 in Kamo, Japan, in his parents’ Zen temple JOKOJI. He was the youngest of six children. After the early loss of his biological father he was adopted by his later master, Hozan Koei Chino Roshi.
乙川 弘文（おとがわ こうぶん、英語: Kōbun Chino Otogawa、1938年 2月1日 - 2002年 7月26日）は、アメリカで活躍した日本の曹洞宗の禅僧。別姓：知野（ちの）。道号は鳳雲。新潟県 加茂市出身。
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.
Kobun Chino Otogawa. Biography. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobun_Chino_Otogawa. http://www.kobun-sama.org/english/biografie.htm. 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.
1967 also saw the arrival of Kobun Chino Otogawa of Eiheiji, who served as assistant to Suzuki. Kobun was resident teacher at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center until 1970. Around 1970, he began sitting regularly with a group in Santa Cruz that went on to form the Santa Cruz Zen Center.
