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Eji (慧慈 or 恵慈? year-of-birth unknown - February 22nd by the lunar calendar, March 31st by the solar calendar, 623) was a priest who came across the sea from Goguryeo to Japan in the Asuka period, 595. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language Romanization system in South Korea. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with Hiragana (ひらがな 平仮名 Katakana is a Japanese Syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with Katakana and Kanji; the Latin alphabet The is named after James Curtis Hepburn, who used it to transcribe the sounds of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet in the third edition of his Japanese–English Goguryeo or Koguryo was an ancient Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, southern Manchuria, and For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. The, was a period in the History of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592-645 although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. He was a tutor of Buddhism to Shōtoku Taishi. also known as, was a Regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan. [1]
He propagated the Buddhism in Japan. He lived at Hōkō-ji (法興寺 Hōkō temple) that is current Ango-in (安居院) or Asuka-dera (飛鳥寺 Asuka temple) with priest Esō who came from Baekje. Baekje (18 BCE – 660 CE or Paekche, was a kingdom located in southwest Korea They were called "Sanpō no Tōryō" (三宝の棟梁 The leader of three treasures).
In 615, He went back to the home country with an annotation book of the Buddhist scriptures, which was written by Shōtoku Taishi.
He heard the news that Shōtoku Taishi died on February 22nd, 622. He grieved very much and took an oath of meeting Shōtoku Taishi again in the Pure Land (浄土 Heaven) on the same day of next year. He achieved an oath. [2]
References
- ^ Encyclopedia of World Biography on Shotoku Taishi [1]
- ^ Nihon Shoki, volumes 22, Story of Suiko. The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. [2][3]
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