Kui-ji (English spelling)

Japanese: 窺基 - きき（英語表記）Kui-ji

[Born] 6th year of the Zhenguan Dynasty (632), Chang'an
Died: November 13, 682. Monk of the Tang Dynasty in Chang'an, China. Founder of the Hosso sect. Master Jion. He became a monk at a young age and became a disciple of Xuanzang. He studied Indian languages and then worked on translating sutras at the Jion Temple. He wrote many treatises, including the Yuishiki Shuki (20 volumes), the Cheng Yuishiki Lun Shuyao (4 volumes), the Mahāyāna Hōen Girinshō (7 volumes), and the Yogaron Ryakusan (16 volumes). On the anniversary of his death, a Jion-e ceremony is held at Yakushi-ji and Kofuku-ji, the head temples of the Hosso sect in Japan, to hold a memorial service. The principal image of the Jion-e ceremony, the statue of Master Jion, was made in the 11th century and is one of the few surviving portraits from the Heian period, and remains in both temples.

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Japanese:

[生]貞観6(632).長安
[没]永淳1(682).11.13. 長安
中国，唐の僧。法相宗の開祖。慈恩大師。幼少に出家して玄奘の弟子となる。インドの諸語を学び，次いで慈恩寺で訳経に従事した。『唯識述記』 (20巻) ，『成唯識論枢要』 (4巻) ，『大乗法苑義林章』 (7巻) ，『瑜伽論略纂』 (16巻) など多数の論著を著わした。日本の法相宗の本山薬師寺，興福寺では忌日に慈恩会を催し，供養を行う。慈恩会の本尊『慈恩大師像』は 11世紀の作で平安時代肖像画の数少い遺品の一つで，両寺に残る。

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