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was a S?t? priest, origami master, and the former abbot of Antaiji near Kyoto, Japan.

The 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...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. Throughout his life, Uchiyama had lived with the damaging effects of tuberculosis. 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. Following the death of his teacher he led a forty-nine day sesshin in memorial of his teacher. In retirement he continued his writing, the majority of which consisted of poetry.

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