Keishun - Kyoshun

Japanese: 慶俊 - きょうしゅん

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A monk from the Nara period. Also called "Keishun." He died during the Enryaku era (782-806). He was born into the Kuzui (Fujii) clan, a clan of immigrants from Tanbi District, Kawachi Province (near Fujiidera City, Osaka Prefecture). The Kuzui clan, along with the Funa clan and Tsu clan, are clans related to the Saibun clan and live in the southern part of Kawachi, and have traditionally had deep ties to Buddhism. It is also close to the main residence of Empress Komyo's mother, Inukai Tachibana Michiyo, in Furuichi District, Kawachi Province. After becoming a monk, Keishun belonged to Daian-ji Temple, where he studied Miwa, Hosso, Kegon, and other theories under the teacher Doji, a monk who had traveled to China. After serving as a Kegon lecturer, in 753 he became the head priest of Hokke-ji Temple (which originated as a palace temple that was established as the palace of Empress Komyo). In the same year, at the time of the death of Emperor Shomu, he was praised as "a leader of the Xuantong who endured the protection of the sacred era" and appointed as a monk. The background to this promotion is assumed to be his strong ties with Empress Komyo and Fujiwara no Nakamaro, in addition to his academic education. Keishun lost his position with the collapse of the Nakamaro government, and returned to the position of monk after Dokyo's downfall. <References> Ryu Sakuma, "Research on the Biographies of Ancient Japanese Monks"

(Hiroyuki Sagimori)

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Japanese:

生年：生没年不詳
奈良時代の僧。「けいしゅん」ともいう。延暦年間(782～806)に没した。河内国丹比郡(大阪府藤井寺市付近)の渡来系氏族葛井(藤井)氏の生まれ。同氏や船氏,津氏は西文氏につながる氏族で河内南部に居住し,伝統的に仏教と縁が深い。光明皇后の母県犬養橘三千代の本貫地河内国古市郡とも近い。慶俊は出家後大安寺に属し,入唐僧の道慈を師として三輪,法相,華厳などを学ぶ。華厳講師などを経て,天平勝宝5(753)年には法華寺(光明皇后の宮を寺院とした宮寺を起源とする)の大鎮となる。同8年,聖武天皇の死に際して「聖代の鎮護に堪え,玄徒の領袖たり」と讃えられ,律師に任じられた。こうした昇進の背景には学問的教養のほか,光明皇后,藤原仲麻呂との強い連携が想定される。慶俊は仲麻呂政権の崩壊とともに失脚,道鏡の没落後,律師に返り咲いた。<参考文献>佐久間竜『日本古代僧伝の研究』

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