| Message from Switzerland
The Zen master Kobun Chino Otagawa Roshi drowned
in a pond in Switzerland. "for the first time the family of five family from America in angel mountain does not make vacation. They logieren in a Ferienchalet, which belongs to befriending them and whose property is surrounded with a large nature pond. Three days spend it in the holiday house at the sun mountain way, when it comes in the late Friday afternoon to the tragedy: The five-year daughter plays older sister at the pond together with their one year, into whose center a basin is built. ' Waehrenddem the older daughter in the house, fell the younger child from unsettled circumstances decreased/went back in the water ', writes the canton police and the office for officeoffice Obwalden in a press release. Only as the 36-jaehrige nut/mother to the whereabouts of its youngest daughter asks, is noticeable that she could not be looked for quite some time any longer. When checking in the garden she discovers the child on the reason of the pond. The nut/mother jumps immediately in the water and tries their daughter to save. In vain. It hurries in the house back and calls its married man for assistance. While the 64-jaehrige family father falls himself into the 18 degree cold water, in order to take its daughter out, the nut/mother alarms neighbours and police. When it returns with the aids to the Ferienchalet, the second shock follows: Also their married man lies rainless in the basin of the nature pond. The police arrived in the meantime gets the two bodies immediately from the water. The attempts at revival of the physician and the outpatient clinic remain however without success. As turned out, the American family father was nonswimmer. He paid for his courage to save to his daughter the life with own death." KOBUN CHINO ROSHI , began its mirror-image-ritual way 1951 in Japan. To the Komazawa University in Kyoto he attained 1965 an academic degree in literature and buddhistischer philosophy. 1967 it moved into the USA and became an assistant of the famous Zenmeisters Shunryu Suzuki Roshi in San Francisco. With this it created the well-known Tassajara Monastery in Carmel Valley as well as numerous further Zen centers in the USA friendly with Tschoegyam Trungpa Rinpoche had it also relevant portion of the development of the Tibetan buddhistischen Shambhala community and was joint founder of the Naropa of institute in Boulder Colorado, at which it taught to last. Kobun Chino Roshi was in addition a outstanding poet, painter and a calligrapher in the tradition of the Japanese Zen arts and had a training order for the history of the Buddhismus to the renowned Stanford University. With Vanja Palmers, his first pupil and Dharma successor in Europe he created several Zen Retreathaeuser in Switzerland and in Austria (Puregg, rock gate, Zwirneli) and accomplished there numerous Sesshins. In August 2002 Kobun Chino Roshi as well as Vanja Palmers in the house Puregg (with Salzburg) wanted to lead a further Zen Sesshin. Meant for its numerous pupils in all world its unexpected death a with difficulty bearable loss. (F. J. Litsch) ________________________________________________________ Address of the homepage of the network: http://www.buddhanetz.org Translation via google http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.cubus.de/zenforum/pri
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