Sochu
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Venerable Sochu (Martin Goodson) is the Yorkshire born Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk at Shobo-an, the lay training temple run by the Zen Centre in London.
Before being ordained by the young Japanese temple priest Daiko Iizuka, he worked as a clerical officer in the personnel department of MSF, the Manufacturing Science and Finance Union on Wandsworth Common. 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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