Background
A Dharma heir of the late Soen Nakagawa—who is of no familial relation—Kyudo first became a Zen monk at age eight.
中川 球童
A Dharma heir of the late Soen Nakagawa—who is of no familial relation—Kyudo first became a Zen monk at age eight.
Then, at age thirty, Kyudo entered Ryūtaku-ji temple and trained under Soen Nakagawa. In 1968 he moved to Jerusalem to lead a center Soen had opened in Israel called Kibutsu-ji, where he stayed on for thirteen years. After Soen Roshi"s death in 1984, Sochu Suzuki Roshi became abbot of Ryūtaku-ji.
When Sochu Roshi died in 1990, Kyudo became abbot of Ryūtaku-ji.
He died on December 29, 2007 at the age of eighty. A collection of Kyudo Nakagawa, Roshi"s talks can be found on line here:.