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Enchin

円珍 zh

Buddhist monk and founder of the Jimon school of Tendai Buddhism

  • Dated 8 April 814 CE – 4 December 891 CE
  • Also called Chishō Daishi

Overview

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Roles and affiliation

Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.

Teachers and students

Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.

Enchin Buddhist monk and founder of the Jimon school of Tendai Buddhism

What the records tie them to

Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.

Connections

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