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A Hosso sect scholar in the early Heian period. Born in Kagami County, Mino (Gifu Prefecture). His secular surname was Hata. At the age of 10, he began studying under Doko (date of birth and death unknown) at Kokubunji in the same province, and at the age of 15, he was ordained under Manyo at Gangoji Temple in Nara. He studied Hosso under Shogo (732-811) at the same temple, and is said to have spent the first half of the month practicing asceticism on Mount Yoshino and the second half studying the teachings at the main temple. He was appointed a monk in 806 (Daido 1), a lecturer at the Yuimae School in 808, then a junior priest, and in 815 (Kōnin 6) he was promoted to Daisōzu. In 819, when Saicho tried to build a Daijo Kaidan (Daijo Kaidan) on Mount Hiei, he represented the Sogo of Nara and argued against it. In 823, he resigned from the Sogo and retired to Bonshakuji Temple, but in 827 (Tencho 4), he was restored to the position of Sojo and passed away on September 11, 1st year of Jowa, at the Shoto-in Temple of Gangoji Temple. He wrote many books, including the five-volume Daijo Hosso Kenshinsho (Daijo Hosso Kenshinsho), one of the Tencho Rokushushu (Church of the Six Schools of the Tencho Era).

[Kou Sonoda July 19, 2017]

"Akinobu Fukihara's History of Japan's Unique Intellectual Thought" (1944, Taigado)

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平安初期の法相(ほっそう)宗の学僧。美濃(みの)（岐阜県）各務(かがみ)郡の人。俗姓は秦(はた)氏。10歳で同国国分寺の道興(どうこう)（生没年不詳）に就学、15歳のとき奈良元興寺(がんごうじ)の万耀(まんよう)に就いて得度した。同寺の勝虞(しょうご)（732―811）に法相を学び、月の上半は吉野山で苦行し、下半は本寺で宗旨を研精したという。806年（大同1）に律師、808年に維摩会(ゆいまえ)講師、ついで少僧都(しょうそうず)に任じ、815年（弘仁6）に大僧都に進んだ。819年最澄(さいちょう)が比叡山(ひえいざん)に大乗戒壇(だいじょうかいだん)を建立しようとしたとき、彼は南都の僧綱(そうごう)を代表してその非を論じた。823年僧綱を辞して梵釈寺(ぼんしゃくじ)に退隠したが、827年（天長4）僧正(そうじょう)に復位、承和(じょうわ)元年9月11日元興寺小塔院に寂した。天長(てんちょう)六宗書の一つである『大乗法相研神章』5巻など著述は多い。

［薗田香融　2017年7月19日］

『富貴原章信著『日本唯識思想史』（1944・大雅堂）』

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