Kakuban
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thumb|Kakuban sculpture (Mitsugon-dō), Oku-no-in, Kōya-san thumb|Mausoleum of Kakuban in Negoro-ji Kakuban (覚鑁/覺鑁; 1095–1143), known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between and . Kakuban is also famous for his introduction of the "esoteric nembutsu".
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- Born
- 1095
- Died
- 1144
- Works
- 5
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- 興教 大師 覚鑁 寫本 集成
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- date of birth
- 1095-07-21
- date of death
- 1144-01-18
- name in kana
- かくばん
- Commons category
- Kakuban
- place of burial
- Negoro-ji Temple
- posthumous name
- 興教大師
- religious name
- 覚鑁
- birth name
- 弥千歳
- art name
- 正覚房
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Shingon school schism
- Teachings
- Pure Land thought and the esoteric nembutsu
- References
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Kakuban sculpture (Mitsugon-dō), Oku-no-in, Kōya-san thumb|Mausoleum of Kakuban in Negoro-ji Kakuban (覚鑁/覺鑁; 1095–1143), known posthumously as Kōgyō-Daishi (興教大師) was a priest of the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan and credited as a reformer, though his efforts also led to a schism between and . Kakuban is also famous for his introduction of the "esoteric nembutsu".
==Biography== Kakuban was born in Fujitsu-no-shō (Hizen Province, nowadays part of Kashima City, Saga Prefecture) about three hundred years after Shingon Buddhism was first founded by Kūkai (空海). His given name was Yachitose-maro (弥千歳麿).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kakuban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.