Hyegwan
Japanese name
Kanji慧灌
Hiraganaえかん
Korean name
Hangul혜관
Hanja慧灌

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]

Hyegwan studied under Jizang and learned Sanron. In 625 (the 33rd year of Empress Suiko), he was dispatched to Japan by an order of King Yeongnyu of Goguryeo,[3] and became the founding patriarch of Japanese Sanron. He lived at Gangō-ji (元興寺 Gangō temple) by an Imperial command. However, Gyōnen wrote that Hyegwan did not lecture on Sanron or start the Japanese tradition, although he "held the jade" (i.e., possessed knowledge of the teachings).[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Keown, Damien (2008). A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. ISBN 0192800620, p. 252
  2. ^ Bunyiu Nanjio (1886). A short history of the twelve Japanese Buddhist sects, Tokyo: Bukkyo-sho-ei-yaku-shupan-sha; p. 46
  3. ^ Nihon Shoki, volumes 22, Story of Suiko.[1] Archived June 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Green, Ronald S. and Chanju Mun (2018). Gyōnen's Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries. ISBN 9789004370388, p. 120

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