Ennin (圓仁 or 円仁) (AD 793 [1] or 794 - 864), who is better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師), was a priest of the Tendai school. Events By Place Europe June 8 - Viking age: Vikings sack the Monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria Events By Place Asia Kyoto becomes the Japanese capital ending the Nara period, and beginning the Heian period. Events By Place Europe July 25 - Edict of Pistres: Charles the Bald orders defensive measures against the Vikings For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A posthumous name is an honorary name given to royalty nobles and sometimes others in some cultures after the person's death History The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk Jianzhen (鑑眞 Jp Ganjin in the middle of the 8th century, but
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Birth and Origin
He was born into the Mibu (壬生) family in present-day Tochigi Prefecture, Japan and entered the Buddhist priesthood at Enryakuji on Mt. Hiei (Hieizan) near Kyoto at the age of 14. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture located in the Kantō region on the island of Honshū, Japan Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices Not to be confused with Engaku-ji in Kamakura., a Monastery on Mount Hiei overlooking Kyoto, was founded is a mountain to the northeast of Kyoto city lying on the border between the Kyoto and Shiga prefectures Japan. (IPA /kʲoːto / is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan.
Trip to China
In 838, his trip to Tang Dynasty China marked the beginning of a set of tribulations and adventures. The Tang Dynasty ( Middle Chinese: dhɑng (June 18 618&ndashJune 4 907 was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by China ( Wade-Giles ( Mandarin) Chung¹kuo² is a cultural region, an ancient Civilization, and depending on perspective a National Initially, he studied under two masters and then spent some time at Wutaishan (五臺山; Japanese: Godaisan), a mountain range famous for its numerous Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province in China. Mount Wutai () also known as Wutai Mountain, located in Shanxi, China, is one of the Four Sacred Mountains in Chinese Buddhism. ( Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province in the northern part of the People's Republic of China. Later he went to Chang'an (Japanese: Chōan), then the capital of China, where he was ordained into both mandala rituals. Chang'an ( is an ancient Capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history. Mandala ( Sanskrit maṇḍala मंड "essence" + ल "having" or "containing" He also wrote of his travels by ship while sailing along the Grand Canal of China. The Grand Canal of China ( also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal ( is the longest ancient Canal or artificial River in the world
Ennin was in China when the anti-Buddhist emperor Wuzong of Tang took the throne in 840, and he lived through the Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution of 842-846. Emperor Tang Wuzong (ca 810 – 846 born Li Yan, was the fifteenth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, reigning from 840 to 846 The Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution initiated by Tang Emperor Wuzong reached its height in the year 845 CE. As a result of the persecution, he was deported from China, returning to Japan in 847. [2]
Return to Japan
In 847 he returned to Japan and in 854, he became the chief priest of the Tendai sect at Enryakuji, where he built buildings to store the sutras and religious instruments he brought back from China. Ennin also founded the temple of Ryushakuji at Yamadera. You may also be looking for the voice actor Kōichi Yamadera. You may also be looking for the voice actor Kōichi Yamadera.
Literary Work
He authored more than 100 books. His diary of travels in China (入唐求法巡礼行記, Nittō Guhō Junrei Kōki) was translated into English by Professor Edwin O. Reischauer under the title Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law . Edwin Oldfather Reischauer ( Tokyo, October 15, 1910 – September 1, 1990) was the leading U is a four volume diary written by Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk in China during ninth century Sometimes ranked among the best travelogues in world literature, it is a key source of information on life in Tang China and Silla Korea and offers a rare glimpse of the Silla personality Jang Bogo. Silla (57 BC – 935 AD was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. Jang Bogo (787-846 alternately 841 also known as Gungbok rose to prominence in Korea in the late Unified Silla period as a powerful maritime figure who for several decades
Sources
- Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (New York: Ronald Press, 1955).
- Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T'ang China (New York: Ronald Press, 1955).
References
- ^ Donald Keene, in his Travelers of a Hundred Ages gives Ennin's birth year as 793, not 794. Donald Lawrence Keene (born June 6 1922 in New York City) is a noted Japanologist, scholar teacher writer translator and interpreter of Travelers of a Hundred Ages is a nonfiction work on the literary form of Japanese diaries by Donald Keene, who writes in his Introduction that
- ^ Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T'ang China.
External Links
- Retracing the steps of Ennin, a travelog of a partial retracing of Ennin's journey made in 2006, with photographs.
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