Fu Yi - Fueki (English spelling) Fù Yì

Japanese: 傅奕 - ふえき（英語表記）Fù Yì

554‐639
He was a Chinese official in the early Tang Dynasty and famous for being an anti-Buddhist advocate. He was from Xiangzhou (Anyang County, Hebei Province). He became a Taoist scholar in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, served Yang Liang, King of Han, during the Sui Dynasty, as a Taoist priest, and became Grand Historian during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty. In 621 (4th year of Wude), he presented the Eleven Articles on Temples, Pagodas, Monks, and Nuns, which caused back and forth debate from both the Buddhist and Taoist religious communities, but his petitions, which he submitted seven times, influenced Emperor Gaozu's policy of reorganizing the religious communities. However, shortly after the imperial decree for the purge was issued, Emperor Gaozu abdicated due to the Xuanwu Gate Incident, and the decree was never implemented. [Fujizen Masumi]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

554‐639
中国，唐初の官僚で廃仏論者として有名。相州(河北省安陽県)の人。北周の通道観学士となり，道士として隋の漢王楊諒に仕え，唐の高祖のとき太史令となった。621年(武徳4)〈寺塔僧尼沙汰十一条〉を上呈，これをめぐり仏･道両教団から論難たがいに往復するが，7度にわたる彼の上表は高祖の教団整理策に影響を与えた。しかし粛清の勅命が下った直後，玄武門の変により高祖は退位し，実施されずに終わった。【藤善真澄】

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