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| + | [[Image:Dengyo-daishi.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Sculpture of Saichô, in wood. [[Muromachi period]]. Walters Art Museum.]] |
| * ''Born: [[767]]'' | | * ''Born: [[767]]'' |
| * ''Died: [[822]]'' | | * ''Died: [[822]]'' |
− | * ''Posthumous Name: Dengyo Daishi'' | + | * ''Posthumous Name: Dengyô Daishi'' |
| + | * Japanese: 最澄 ''(Saichou)''; 伝教[[大師]] ''(Dengyou daishi)'' |
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− | Saicho (known ) was a monk who left the 'Urban Buddhism' of Nara to become a recluse on Mt. Hiei, where he built a small shrine in [[788]]. He was sent by the [[emperor Kammu]] with the Japanese Ambassador to China, [[Fujiwara Kadonomaro]], to study in China in [[804]]. He returned in [[805]] to found the Tendai Lotus sect of Japanese Buddhism. His small monastery, the [[Enryaku-Ji]], on Mt. Hiei was enlarged, and grew steadily in power and influence over the centuries, until it was nearly eradicated by [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1571]].
| + | Saichô was the founder of the [[Tendai]] sect of Buddhism in Japan. |
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| + | He is said to have been of mixed Chinese and Japanese parentage.<ref>Gary Leupp, ''Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900'', A&C Black (2003), 52.</ref> A monk who left the urban Buddhism of [[Nara]] to become a recluse on [[Mt. Hiei]], Saichô built a small shrine in [[788]]. He was sent by the [[Emperor Kammu]] with a Japanese embassy to China under [[Fujiwara Kadonomaro]], to study in China in [[804]]. He returned in [[805]] to found the Tendai Lotus sect of Japanese Buddhism. His small monastery, the [[Enryaku-ji]], on Mt. Hiei was enlarged, and grew steadily in power and influence over the centuries, until it was nearly eradicated by [[Oda Nobunaga]] in [[1571]]. |
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| + | ==References== |
| + | *Gallery label, "Portrait of Dengyô Daishi," 1974.35, Walters Art Museum. |
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