1. Brigitte D'Ortschy, or Koun-An Doru Chiko, was an architect, journalist, translator, author, and the first Zen master from Germany in the Sanbo Kyodan school of Japan.
11 Facts About Brigitte D'Ortschy
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Brigitte D'Ortschy completed her education by studying architecture and engineering in Berlin and Graz.
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From 1947 to 1950 Brigitte D'Ortschy worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Munich in the field of building history and archaeology.
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Brigitte D'Ortschy concluded her graduate studies at the University of North Carolina and worked for the Planning Commission of Philadelphia.
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In 1951 Brigitte D'Ortschy became a founding member of the Bavarian Committee for Urban and Regional Planning.
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Shortly after her arrival in Japan Brigitte D'Ortschy met Zen-Master Ryoko Roshi and in April 1964 she began her rigorous Zen-training under him in the Fukusho-ji in Tokyo and in the Mokuso-in in Kamakura.
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Brigitte D'Ortschy earned a living as a lecturer at the Waseda, Yokohama and Tokyo universities, and being an articulate writer, she wrote many articles about traditional Japanese culture and its Zen schools of art.
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Brigitte D'Ortschy underwent the entire Koan-training which she completed in 1972 when she received Inka Shomei.
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Brigitte D'Ortschy designed the cover of this book and translated it into German.
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Brigitte D'Ortschy shielded her Munich zendo and her students from the public limelight in order to guarantee an intense and authentic zen-training and did so in line with her view that "spiritual training is always for free".
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Under the pseudonym of Michael Mueller, Brigitte D'Ortschy published a teisho about the koan "MU".