Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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shakuhachi player
Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1947
Date of Death: 30-May-2017
Profession: music pedagogue
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
- Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin (July 3, 1947 – May 30, 2017) born in Brooklyn, New York, was a noted shakuhachi player. He studied theology at the New School for Social Research, then went to Japan where he studied the shakuhachi, receiving the name Nyogetsu in 1975.
- By 2001 he received his Grand Master's license at the level of Kyu-Dan.
- and was given the name Reishin ("Heart/Mind of the Bell").
- He performed on the soundtrack for A Family Gathering (1989) and also appears on the Grammy Award-nominated "The Planet Sleeps."He was of the Tenrikyo faith and lived with his wife Brenda in New York City.
- His wife is a practicing Chan Buddhist. He was the founder and director of the Ki-Sui-An Shakuhachi Dojo, taught shakuhachi regularly in New York City, Philadelphia, Syracuse, and Boston, and led regular intensive shakuhachi retreats at Zen monasteries in upstate New York.
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