Ennin (794-864) was a Japanese monk who founded the Sammon branch of the Tendai sect. He studied Esoteric Buddhism in T'ang China. The family name of Ennin was Mibu, and he was born in the Tsuga district of Shimotsuke Province (modern Tochigi...

ENNIN (794–864), posthumous title, Jikaku Daishi; was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. Ennin was born in north-central Japan. At fifteen he entered the monastic center on Mount Hiei, the headquarters of the Tendai school, where he...

Ennin (圓仁 or 円仁) (AD 793 [1] or 794 - 864), who is better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (慈覺大師), was a priest of the Tendai (天台) school. He was born into the Mibu (壬生) family in present-day Tochigi...

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