Kazuyoshi Kino


Kazuyoshi Kino was a Japanese Buddhist scholar.
Together with Hajime Nakamura and others, he translated the Heart Sutra, the Prajnaparamita sutras, and the three main sutras of the Jodo sect.

Life

Born the son of the head priest of Kempon Hokke Myorenji Temple in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kino moved at the age of four to Hiroshima Prefecture, to Honshoji, when his father became head priest there.
While he was a second year student at the School of Indian Philosophy, Literature Department, Imperial University of Tokyo, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. At the end of World War II, in 1945, he was taken prisoner in Taiwan. In the same year his family died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He was repatriated in 1946, resumed his studies and graduated in 1948.
In the 1990s he became president of Hosen Gakuen College, Tokyo. He was also vice-president of Shogen Junior College in Minokamo, Gifu.
He had his own radio show called Kino Kazuyoshi no sekai on Radio Nikkei.
He died on December 28, 2013, of pneumonia.

Awards

Writings (selection)

Hokekyō no tankyū, Heirakuji Shōten, 1962 Zen : gendai ni ikiru mono , Nihon hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai, 1966 Inochi no sekai Hokekyō, 1965Meisō retsuden, Bungeishunju, 1973－78　Hokekyō no fūkō, 5 volumes, Mizu Shobō, 1976－77　 Hannya shingyō" o yomu　, Kodansha gendai shinsho, 1981 "Hokekyo" o yomu, Kodansha gendai shinsho 1982Hannya shingyo kogi, PHP kenkyujo, 1983　　"Tannisho" kogi, PHP kenkyujo, 1984Kenji no shinpi Kosei Shuppansha, 1985 Shinran ni manabu, Nihon Hōsō Shuppan Kyōkai, 1988 Bukkyo no kiiwado, Kodansha gendai shinsho, 1988

Lecture CDs

Shōbō Genzō ni manabu, 2008Kaze ni kiki mizu ni tou, 2008Ee naa! Ee naa! Ee naa!～ Kyūdai Hokekyo no kokoro, 2008