Hyegwan (
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
: was a priest who came across the sea from
Goguryeo
Goguryeo (37 BC–668 AD) ( ) also called Goryeo (), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled mos ...
to
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
in the
Asuka period
The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after ...
. He is known for introducing the Chinese Buddhist school of
Sanlun to Japan.
Hyegwan studied under
Jizang and learned Sanron. In 625 (the 33rd year of
Empress Suiko
(554 – 15 April 628) was the 33rd monarch of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 推古天皇 (33)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession.
Suiko reigned from 593 until her death in 628.
In the history of Japa ...
), he was dispatched to Japan by an order of King
Yeongnyu of Goguryeo
Yeongnyu of Goguryeo (?–642) was the 27th monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 618 to 642.
Family
*Father: King Pyeongwon (평원왕, 平原王)
**Grandfather: King Yangwon (양원왕, 陽原王)
*Unknown ...
,
['' Nihon Shoki'', volumes 22, Story of Suik]
' 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).
[Green, Ronald S. and Chanju Mun (2018). Gyōnen's Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries. , p. 120]
Notes
References
*
Green, Ronald S. and Chanju Mun, Ronald S. Green and Chanju Mun Gyōnen's Transmission of the Buddha Dharma in Three Countries, Leiden: Brill, 2018. p. 120-12
*
Fumihiko Sueki, 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. 71-15
Korean Buddhist monks
Goguryeo Buddhist monks
Sanron Buddhist monks
Asuka period Buddhist clergy
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