Dosen - Dosen

Japanese: 道璿 - どうせん
Dosen - Dosen

Chinese monk. Born in Xuzhou, Henan Province. Family name Wei. Later, he received the precepts from Johin of Daifukusenji Temple in Luoyang and learned about the Vinaya. He then studied Zen and Kegon Buddhism under Fujaku (651-739). In 733 (Tenpyo 5), Japanese monks Yoei (date of birth and death unknown) and Fusho (date of birth and death unknown) entered China and asked Dosen to transmit the precepts to Japan. He came to Japan on a Tang ship with Bodhisena of India and Buttetsu of Linyu (a country in the southeast of the Indochina Peninsula), and arrived in Dazaifu in May 736. He lectured on the Vinaya and the Bonmokyo Sutra at the Saitoin Temple of Daian-ji Temple in Nara, and gave precepts to many Japanese monks. In his later years, he suddenly retired to Hisoji Temple in Yoshino. He encouraged monks of the time to live in seclusion in the mountains. He wrote Annotated Bonmokyo Sutra and Shiki Tsuibukumon.

[Kiuchi Akio March 21, 2017]

[Reference items] | Buddhist philosophy | Bodhisattana

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

中国の僧。河南省許州に生まれる。姓は衛氏。のち洛陽(らくよう)の大福先寺の定賓(じょうひん)に受戒し律に通じる。ついで普寂(ふじゃく)(651―739)から禅・華厳(けごん)を学ぶ。733年(天平5)に日本僧栄叡(ようえい)(生没年不詳)、普照(ふしょう)(生没年不詳)が入唐(にっとう)し、道璿に日本へ戒律を伝えることを懇請。インドの菩提僊那(ぼだいせんな)、林邑(りんゆう)(インドシナ半島南東にあった国)の仏哲(ぶってつ)と遣唐船で来朝、736年5月大宰府(だざいふ)着。奈良・大安寺西唐院で律や『梵網経(ぼんもうきょう)』を講じ、多くの日本僧に授戒した。晩年、突然吉野の比蘇(ひそ)寺に引退。当時の僧の山岳隠棲(いんせい)を促した。『註(ちゅう)梵網経』『四季追福文』などを著す。

[木内曉央 2017年3月21日]

[参照項目] | 仏哲 | 菩提僊那

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