Venerable Sochu (Martin Goodson) is the Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk at Shobo-an, the lay training temple run by the Zen Centre in London. He was born in Yorkshire. Before being ordained by the young Japanese temple priest Daiko Iizuka, he worked as a personnel and training officer in the trade union Amicus. A ceremony was performed on 26 June 2004 by Iizuka, a popular Rinzai Zen priest, married with a young family. Iizuka himself inherited his father's temple, the successful tourist temple, Ichibata [1] in Shimane, Japan. Daiko Iizuka first visited England in 1989, before he was married, as one of the attendants to another Japanese teacher. He stayed at Shobo-an in St John's Wood during the winter months while studying nearby at the Hampstead School of English. A popular modernising young monk, he wore T-shirts and jeans to the school. Venerable Sochu oversees a number of classes and courses at the Buddhist Society, London, with which the Zen Centre is closely affiliated.
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