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Published on: 3/24/2007
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Ogui will know who.) I ended up contacting Koshin Ogui in Chicago where he was the priest of the Jodo Shinshu, Buddhist Churches of America, temple.We talked some then and made a date to get together when he was to come to San Francisco for a board meeting of BCA.
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Reverend Koshin Ogui, Sensei, is an 18th generation priest of the Jodo Shin Shu or True Pure Land School of Buddhism who is a graduate of Ryukoko University in Kyoto, Japan and who has also had extensive training in Zen practices and has studied at Yale Divinity School.Reverend Ogui came to the United States in 1962 and thereafter shared his wisdom and compassion as a resident minister at the Los Angeles Buddhist Temple, the Oxnard and Santa Barbara Buddhist Temples, and the San Francisco Buddhist Temple.
He became the resident minister of the Cleveland Buddhist Temple in 1977 and remained our supervising minister after 1992 when he assumed the duties of resident minister of the Midwest Buddhist Temple in Chicago.In 2004 he became Socho (Bishop) of the Buddhist Churches of America and now has his residence in San Francisco.
DC: [I called Ogui Sensei and he called me back on 8\18\95 and he had this to say then.]
KO: I was pretty depressed in 1959 when Suzuki Roshi came to San Francisco, and I was discouraged and ready to go back to Japan.He observed my insides and he invited me to come to zazen practice.
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And Suzuki looked at me and said, "Ogui, you are the person who should go talk to her."