In This Body, In This LifetimeBy: Sozen Nagasawa Roshi Available for the first time in English, an intimate look into the private lives and spiritual experiences of 30 nuns and laywomen practicing under pioneering female Zen master Sozen Nagasawa Roshi in World War II era Japan. Born in 1888, Sozen Nagasawa Roshi was a pioneer of womens monastic Zen practice in Japan. With a profound wish to become a nun from a young age, she persevered through the extreme social pressures and