Hyegwan
| Hyegwan | |||||||
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| Kanji | 慧灌 | ||||||
| Hiragana | えかん | ||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||
| Hangul | 혜관 | ||||||
| Hanja | 慧灌 | ||||||
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Hyegwan (Japanese: Ekan (慧灌, year of birth and death unknown) was a priest who came across the sea from Goguryeo to Japan in the Asuka period. He is known for introducing the Chinese Buddhist school of Sanlun to Japan.[1][2]
Ekan studied under Jizang and learned Sanron. In 625 (the 33rd year of Empress Suiko), he was dispatched to Japan by an order of King of Goguryeo,[3] and he propagated the Sanlun. He lived at Gangō-ji (元興寺 Gangō temple) by an Imperial command.
Notes
- ↑ Keown, Damien (2008). A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. ISBN 0192800620, p. 252
- ↑ Bunyiu Nanjio (1886). A short history of the twelve Japanese Buddhist sects, Tokyo: Bukkyo-sho-ei-yaku-shupan-sha; p. 46
- ↑ Nihon Shoki, volumes 22, Story of Suiko. Archived June 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
References
- Sueki, Fumihiko 末木文美士: "The Sanron School in Japan: A Study of a Chapter of Gyōnen's Sangoku Buppō Denzū Engi" 「三國佛法傅通縁起」日本三論宗章研究, The Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture 東洋文化研究所紀要, No.99, 1986-02, p. 71-151.
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