Emon

Japanese: 慧文 - えもん

A monk from Northern Qi during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period in China. Also known as Huiwen. His surname was Gao. His birth and death years and place of birth are unknown, but with Nanyue Huisi as his subordinate, he is considered the second patriarch of the Tendai sect. Through Nagarjuna's works, which had been translated earlier by Kumarajiva of Yaoqin, he practiced Zen meditation, realised the principle of the one-mind, three-viewpoints, and summed up the doctrine. Through Huisi, Tiantai Zhiyi synthesised this, and founded the Tendai sect with Lotus Sutra Samadhi as its axis. The one-mind, three-viewpoints are the experience of the three truths of emptiness, provisionality, and the middle ground with a single mind, and are the basis of Tendai studies. [Yanagida Seizan]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，南北朝時代，北斉の僧。慧聞ともいう。姓は高。生没年，生地ともに不明だが，その下に南岳慧思を出すことで，天台宗第2祖とされる。先に姚秦の羅什が訳出した竜樹の著作によって，禅観の実践につとめ，一心三観の理を悟って，その教理を集大成する。慧思を介して，天台智顗（ちぎ）がこれを総合し，法華三昧を軸に，天台宗を開創する。一心三観とは，空仮中の三諦を，一心の上に体験するもので，天台学の根拠である。【柳田聖山】

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