Tetsugyu Soin Ban

Tetsugyu Soin Ban (伴 鉄牛 (Ban Tetsugyu)祖印 (soin); 4 June 1910 in Hanamaki, Japan – 21 January 1996 in Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese Zen master. He was a disciple of the Soto Zen Master Harada Daiun Sogaku, one of the first Zen teachers to open Zen doctrine to western students.