Ekan

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Hyegwan/Ekan
Korean name
Hangul 혜관 Hanja 慧灌 Revised Romanization Hyegwan McCune-Reischauer Hyekwan
Japanese name
Kanji 慧灌 Hiragana えかん Hepburn Ekan

Ekan (慧灌, Ekan^? year of birth and death unknown) was a priest who came across the sea from Goguryeo to Japan in the Asuka period. He is known for introducing the Chinese Buddhist school of Sanlun to Japan.

Ekan studied under Jizang and learned Sanron. In 625 (the 33rd year of Empress Suiko), he was dispatched to Japan by an order of King of Goguryeo^[1], and he propagated the Sanlun. He lived at Gangō-ji (元興寺 Gangō temple) by an Imperial command.

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1. ^ Nihon Shoki, volumes 22, Story of Suiko.[1]

• Sueki Fumihiko 末木文美士: "The Sanron School in Japan: A Study of a Chapter of Gyōnen's Sangoku Buppō Denzū Engi" 「三國佛法傅通縁起」日本三論宗章研究, The Memoirs of the Institute of Oriental Culture 東洋文化研究所紀要, No.99, 1986-02, p.71-151.[2]