Detailed investigation

Japanese: 審詳 - しんじょう

A scholar of the Kegon sect in the Nara period. His birth and death years are unknown. He was also written as Shinsho. Old biographies of the Kegon sect, such as the Ichijo Kaishinron, refer to him as a "Seikyū student," who studied in Silla and learned the Kegon doctrine. After returning to Japan, he lived at Daian-ji Temple in Ukyo, Heijō. At the request of Roben, who was promoting the Kegon sect, he lectured on the 60 volumes of the Kegon Sutra (old translation) at Kinsho-ji Temple for three years from October 740 (Tenpyō 12), instructing many scholars such as Jikun, Kagenin, and Genchi, and making a great contribution to the doctrinal research that would later lead to the construction of the Great Buddha of Vairocana at Todaiji Temple. There is a theory that he replaced Roben as the founder of the Kegon sect in Japan, but his secular surname is unclear.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

奈良時代の華厳宗の学僧。生没年不詳。審祥とも書く。《一乗開心論》などの華厳宗の古伝記は〈青丘留学生〉とし，新羅国に留学して華厳教学を学び，帰国後は平城右京の大安寺に止住していた。良弁（ろうべん）の華厳興隆の請により，740年(天平12)10月より3年間，金鐘寺において《華厳経》60巻(旧訳)を講じ，慈訓，鏡忍，厳智など多くの学僧を指導し，後の東大寺盧舎那大仏造立の教理的研究を果たした功は大きい。良弁にかわって日本華厳宗の初祖とする説もあるが，その俗姓は明らかでない。

出典　株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典第２版について　情報

<<: Shinjo clan

>>: Shinjo [village] - Shinjo