Huichao (English spelling)

Japanese: 慧超 - えちょう（英語表記）Hyech'o

[Born] King Seongdeok 3 (704)
[Dead]?
A scholar and traveller from Korea and Silla. As a boy, he went to China and studied under the Indian monk Kongochi (posthumous name Daigukyo Sanzo, founder of Chinese esoteric Buddhism), who was based in China. He then travelled by sea to India and visited Buddhist sites in various places. On his way back, he crossed the Congling Mountains (Pamir) and passed through Kuicha, the location of the Anxi Protectorate, before returning to China in 727 to study under Kongochi again and then under Amoghavajra. He seems to have spent more than 50 years in China after returning from India, but his year of death and place of death are unknown. The remaining volumes of his travelogue of India, "Echo-o Gotenjiku Kokuden", were discovered by chance in 1910 during P. Pelliot's (1878-1945) expedition to Dunhuang, and are considered an important historical source for research on the Western Regions.

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Japanese:

[生]聖徳王3(704)
[没]?
朝鮮，新羅の学僧，旅行家。少年時代に渡唐して在唐のインド人高僧，金剛智 (諡号大弘教三蔵〈だいぐきょうさんぞう〉，中国密教の開祖) に師事し，やがて海路インドにおもむき各地の仏跡をめぐった。帰途は葱嶺 (そうれい。パミール) を越えて安西都護府の所在地，亀茲 (きじ) を経て 727年に唐に帰り再び金剛智に学び，さらに不空に師事した。インドから帰国後中国で 50年余を過したらしいが，その没年や他界の地は明らかでない。彼のインド旅行記『慧超往五天竺国伝 (えちょうおうごてんじくこくでん) 』は 1910年偶然にも P.ペリオ (1878～1945) の敦煌 (とんこう) 探検中，その残巻が発見され，西域研究上重要な史料とされている。

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