Hyegwan

Hyegwan
Japanese name
Kanji	慧灌
Hiragana	えかん
Transcriptions Revised Hepburn Ekan
Korean name
Hangul	혜관
Hanja	慧灌
Transcriptions Revised Romanization Hyegwan McCune–Reischauer Hyekwan

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

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. 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.