Kenryo Kanamatsu
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Kenryo Kanamatsu (1915-1986) was a translator, author, and lifelong devotee of Shin Buddhism. His seminal work, Naturalness, (written in 1949), was an introduction of Shin Buddhism to the Western world.
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Born in Kyoto in 1915, Kanamatsu received his B.A. in Philosophy at Otani University. A Fulbright scholar at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, he received his doctorate and became a Professor at Otani University. A translator as well as an author, Kanamatsu translated the works of Plato into Japanese.[1]
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- Naturalness: A Classic of Shin Buddhism (World Wisdom, 2002) ISBN 978-0941532297
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