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Basic Meaning: Hyegwan

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  • (d.u.) A Sanlun 三論 monk from the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo who traveled to Sui China and studied Sanlun under Jizang 吉藏 of Jiaxiangsi 嘉祥寺. In 625 he was sent by the king of Goguryeo to Japan [reference in Nihonshoki 日本書紀], where he took up residence at Gangōji 元興寺 and taught Sanlun doctrine. In the summer of 625, Hyegwan was credited with bringing rain during a drought after donning a green robe and lecturing on Sanlun. Empress Suiko 推古天皇 was pleased and appointed Hyegwan to the position of sōjō 僧正. Hyegwanʼs dissemination of Sanlun is the first transmission of the school to Japan and is referred to as the Gangōji lineage 元興寺流. Hyegwan founded Ikamiji 井上寺 in Kawachi 河內 [part of present-day Osaka], where he lived for nine years until his death at the age of approximately ninety. References to Hyegwan can be found in: 日本書紀 22 [Nihonshoki 22], 元亨釋書 [Genkōshakusho], 三論祖師傳集 [Sanron soshi denshū], 三國佛法傳通緣起 [Sankoku Buppō dentsū engi], and the 本朝高僧傳 1 [Honchō kōsōden 1]. [Mark Dennis]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata) 018

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 80

    Bulgyo sajeon 942a

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) ---/57

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    Entry created: 2001-09-08

    Updated: 2013-07-10