Egaku information

Egaku
Egaku
恵萼
	Modern drawing of Egaku (early Heian period - early 9th century CE)
Personal
Born	unknown but before 822 ; Japan
Died	unknown but after 864 CE ; Japan
Religion	Buddhism
Flourished	9th Century CE
School	Zen, Tendai
Occupation	Buddhist monk, scholar
Senior posting
Teacher	Saichō, Yanguan Qi’an
	Disciples Jinsai (仁斎), Junshō (順昌);
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	慧鍔
Simplified Chinese	慧锷
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Huì'è
Wade–Giles	Hui4 o4
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	Huệ Ngạc or Tuệ Ngạc
Korean name
Hangul	혜악
Hanja	慧鍔
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Hyeak
Japanese name
Hiragana	えがく

Egaku or Hui'E ^{[note 4]} was a well-connected 9th century Japanese scholar-monk ^[5]^: 46^{[note 5]} who made frequent trips to Tang China for pilgrimage and bringing back Buddhist teachings to Japan. Egaku had a huge impact on the religious and cultural history of China and Japan.^[6]^: 1^{[note 6]} In Japan, he is famous for bringing the first Rinzai Zen monk Gikū^[2]^: 7605^{[note 7]} and the works of the Chinese poet Bai Juyi to Japan.^[5]^: 47–49 In China, he is renowned for his role in establishing a developed pilgrimage site in Putuoshan, one of the four major Buddhist pilgrimage sites in China.^[7]^: 14^{[note 8]} ^[4]^{[note 9]}

^ ^a ^b Putuoshan 2017 慧锷，又译惠萼、慧谔、慧萼[、惠蕚]，是入唐求法的学问僧和请益僧，又是日本天台宗始祖最澄大师高足。Hui'E, also known as 慧锷，惠萼、慧谔、慧萼[、惠蕚] was the disciple of the founder of the Japanese Tendai Sect Saichō.
^ ^a ^b Foguangshan 1989
^ Chen 2010, p. 47 最后于咸通五年（日本贞观六年，８６４）和入唐僧贤真、忠全等一起从明州回到日本。从此以后，其名便消失在这一时代的史籍之外了。Egaku returned to Japan for the last time in 864 CE from Ningbo; with two Japanese monks who had earlier accompanied him on the way to China, Genma and Zenchū. After that, Egaku's name disappears from the historical record.
^ ^a ^b Putuoshan 2017
^ ^a ^b Chen 2010
^ Tanaka 2011
^ Wang 2009

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[PutuoshanQuote-1] Putuoshan 2017 慧锷，又译惠萼、慧谔、慧萼[、惠蕚]，是入唐求法的学问僧和请益僧，又是日本天台宗始祖最澄大师高足。Hui'E, also known as 慧锷，惠萼、慧谔、慧萼[、惠蕚] was the disciple of the founder of the Japanese Tendai Sect Saichō.

[Foguangshan_1989-3] Foguangshan 1989

[FOOTNOTEChen201047-5] Chen 2010, p. 47 最后于咸通五年（日本贞观六年，８６４）和入唐僧贤真、忠全等一起从明州回到日本。从此以后，其名便消失在这一时代的史籍之外了。Egaku returned to Japan for the last time in 864 CE from Ningbo; with two Japanese monks who had earlier accompanied him on the way to China, Genma and Zenchū. After that, Egaku's name disappears from the historical record.

[Putuoshan_2017-6] Putuoshan 2017

[Chen_2010-9] Chen 2010

[Tanaka_2011-11] Tanaka 2011

[Wang_2009-14] Wang 2009

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