Background
Tokuno Oda was born in the Gankoji Temple in Fukui Prefecture.
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Tokuno Oda
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Tokuno Oda was initiated into priesthood at the age of 12.
Career
In 1889, traveled in Siam in the suite of the Japanese Minister to that country. He brought to Japan Buddhist sutras from Siam (1890). Started compiling a comprehensive Buddhist dictionary (1898) and almost completed it before he died (1911). An authority on Buddhism in Southeast Asia. He wrote biographies of noted Buddhist priests in China and Japan.
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- colleague:
- Mokurai Shimaji
