Jikun - Praying for the Lord

Japanese: 慈訓 - じくん

Year of death: Hōki 8 (777)
Year of birth: Jitō 5 (691)
A monk from the Nara period. Also called "Jikin." He was from the Funa clan, a clan of immigrants from Tanbi County, Kawachi Province (Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture). He was related to Dosho, a monk who went to China. He entered Kofuku-ji Temple and studied Hosso and Kegon doctrine. After serving as a Kegon lecturer and a lecturer at the Imperial Court, he served as a Zen master caring for Emperor Shomu when he died in 756 (Tenpyo Shoho 8), and was exempted from the duties of his parents and appointed as Shosozu. Around this time, he lived in Tonoshima-in, within Hokke-ji Temple, which had a connection with Empress Komyo, and apparently served as the head priest of Kofuku-ji Temple, the clan temple of the Fujiwara clan. He had a close relationship with Fujiwara no Nakamaro, and was forced to resign after the collapse of Nakamaro's government, but with the fall of Dokyo, he was made Shosozu again in 770 (Hōki 1). <References> Sakuma Ryu, "Research on the Biographies of Ancient Japanese Monks"

(Hiroyuki Sagimori)

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Japanese:

没年：宝亀8(777)
生年：持統5(691)
奈良時代の僧。「じきん」ともいう。河内国丹比郡(大阪府羽曳野市)の渡来系氏族船氏の出身。入唐僧の道昭の同族。興福寺に入り法相,華厳教学を学ぶ。華厳講師,宮中講師を経て,天平勝宝8(756)年聖武天皇の死に当たり,看病禅師として奉仕,父母などの課役を免除され,少僧都に任じられた。このころ,光明皇后と縁のある法華寺内の外嶋院に住み,藤原氏の氏寺興福寺別当になっていたらしい。藤原仲麻呂と関係が深く,仲麻呂政権の崩壊後失脚したが,道鏡没落に伴い,宝亀1(770)年再び少僧都となった。<参考文献>佐久間竜『日本古代僧伝の研究』

(鷺森浩幸)

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