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
^Keown, Damien (2008). A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.
ISBN0192800620, p. 252
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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