Kosho Uchiyama

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Kosho Uchiyama
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Born: 1912
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Died: March 13, 1998
Nationality: Japanese
Religion: Zen Buddhism
School(s): Soto
Title(s): Roshi
Workplace: Antaiji
Education: M.A. (Waseda Univ.)
Predecessor(s): Kodo Sawaki
Successor(s): Koho Watanabe
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Kosho Uchiyama (内山 興正,1912—March 13, 1999) was a Soto priest, origami master, and the former abbot of Antaiji near Kyoto, Japan.

The author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami[1]—of which Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice is best-known—Uchiyama graduated from Waseda University with a masters degree in Western philosophy in 1937 and was ordained a priest in 1941 by his teacher Kodo Sawaki.[2] Throughout his life, Uchiyama had lived with the damaging effects of tuberculosis.[3] He became abbot of Antaiji following Sawaki's death in 1965 until he retired in 1975 to Nokei-in, also near Kyoto, where he lived with his wife.[1] Following the death of his teacher he led a forty-nine day sesshin in memorial of his teacher.[2] In retirement he continued his writing, the majority of which consisted of poetry.[3]

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  1. ^ a b Uchiyama, 201
  2. ^ a b Ford, 139
  3. ^ a b Wright & Warner

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[edit] External links

http://www.zen.ite.pl/masters/kosho_uchiyama.html (Polish language)

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