Fumon S.Nakagawa Roshi: Born in 1947, he studied philosophy and buddhology in Tokyo.
He was ordinated as a soto zen monk in 1970.
He was a disciple of two teachers: Sakai Roshi and Kawase Roshi, both direct disciples of Kodo Sawaki Roshi.
He got his monastery education in Eiheiji, the main tempel of the soto zen school in Japan.
Nakagawa Roshi is a "kaikyoshi" - the authorized foreign representative - of the Japanese soto-zen school.
He is a member of Thich Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeeing.
He has been living in Germany since 1979. There he founded Daihizan Fumonji in 1996.
It is the first authorized Japanese zen monastery in Europe and its name can be translated as
"the mountain of great compassion and the site of the universal gate".
This monastery is in the direct lineage of the Eiheiji tempel tradition thanks to its honorary founder
Miyazaki Zenji - 78th abbot of the Eiheiji tempel (thus 78th Dogen Zenji's descendant).
Nakagawa Roshi is not only the abbot of the monastery in German Eisenbuch, but also of the Shinryu-an tempel in Tokyo.
