Background
Kaikyoku Watanabe was born in 1872 in Tokyo, Japan.
海旭 渡辺
Kaikyoku Watanabe was born in 1872 in Tokyo, Japan.
After finishing at Jodo Sect School (1894) continued his studies in Germany.
Upon returning was appointed principal of Shiba Middle School and at the same time began teaching at Taisho and Тoуo colleges (1911). Later he organized Buddhist Workers Mutual Relief Association and Buddhist Social Work Research Institute and advocated a union of Buddhists in Japan, India, China, Burma and Tibet. He supervised the compilation of Taisho Shin-shu Daizo-kyo (Complete Buddhist Scriptures Compiled in the Taisho Era).