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Kegon
Kegon ( 華 厳 宗 ) is the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of
Chinese Buddhism.

Huayan studies were founded in Japan in 736 when the scholar-priest

Rōben ( 良 辯 or 良 弁 ), originally a monk of the East Asian Yogācāra
tradition, invited Shinshō (traditional Chinese: 審 祥 ; ; pinyin: Shenxiang;
Japanese pronunciation: Shinjō; Korean pronunciation: Simsang) to give
lectures on the Avatamsaka Sutra at Kinshōsen Temple (⾦鐘⼭寺, also ⾦
鐘 寺 Konshu-ji or Kinshō-ji), the origin of later Tōdai-ji. When the Daibutsuden at Tōdai-ji, Nara
construction of the Tōdai-ji was completed, Rōben entered that temple to
formally initiate Kegon as a field of study in Buddhism in Japan, and
Kegon-shū would become known as one of the Nanto Rikushū (南都六宗) or "Six Buddhist Sects of Nanto". Rōben's
disciple Jitchū continued administration of Tōdai-ji and expanded its prestige through the introduction of imported
rituals.

Kegon thought would later be popularized by Myōe (明惠), who combined its doctrines with those of Vajrayana and
Gyōnen ( 凝 然 ), and is most responsible for the establishment of the Tōdai-ji lineage of Kegon. Over time, Kegon
incorporated esoteric ritual from Shingon Buddhism, with which it shared a cordial relationship. Its practice continues
to this day, and includes a few temples overseas.

Literature
Daigan Lee Matsunaga und Alicia Orloff Matsunaga: Foundation of Japanese Buddhism; Vol. I; The aristocratic
age. Buddhist Books International, Los Angeles und Tokio 1974. ISBN 0-914910-25-6.
Thomas Cleary (trans.): The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sūtra (1993). ISBN 0-
87773-940-4
Gimello, Robert ; Girard, Frédéric ; Hamar, Imre (2012). Avataṃsaka Buddhism in East Asia : Huayan, Kegon,
Flower Ornament Buddhism ; origins and adaptation of a visual culture, Asiatische Forschungen:
Monographienreihe zur Geschichte, Kultur und Sprache der Völker Ost- u. Zentralasiens, Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, ISBN 978-3-447-06678-5.

External links
(Japanese) 華厳宗⼤本⼭ 東⼤寺の公式ホームページ (http://www.todaiji.or.jp)
See also
Buddhism in Japan

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