death_date religion predecessor birth_place successor color location nationality title article_title background birth_date school education name
1998 1912 03 zen buddhism kodo sawaki tokyo , japan koho watanabe shohaku okumura black antai-ji japanese rōshi kōshō uchiyama
 #ffd 068 1912 sōtō m.a. -lrb- waseda univ. -rrb- kosho uchiyama
kōshō uchiyama

uchiyama was author of more than twenty books on zen buddhism and origami , of which `` opening the hand of thought : foundations of zen buddhist practice '' is best known .
