Hyechong

	Hyechong
Japanese name
Kanji	慧灌 or 惠聰
Hiragana	えそう
Transcriptions
Revised Hepburn	Eso
Korean name
Hangul	혜총
Hanja	慧灌 or 惠聰
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Hyechong
McCune–Reischauer	Hyechong

Hyechong also known as Esō was a Buddhist monk from Baekje who travelled to Japan in the Asuka period to transmit Buddhism.[1]

Traveling to Japan in 595 (the 3rd year of Empress Suiko), he preached Buddhism. When Hōkō-ji (法興寺, Hōkō temple), which is now Ango-in (安居院) or Asuka-dera (飛鳥寺, Asuka temple) was completed in 596, the monk lived with the priest Eji from Goguryeo, and together they were called "Sanpō no Tōryō" (三宝の棟梁, "The leaders of three treasures").[2]

References

Kasahara, Kazuo; McCarthy, Paul; Sekimori, Gaynor (2001). A History of Japanese religion. Kosei Pub. p. 57. ISBN 4-333-01917-6. As soon as the temple was completed, in 596, the priest Hyechong, who had arrived from Paekche the previous year, too up residence there. Thus Paekche's influence on Asuka Buddhism was immense; indeed, Asuka Buddhism can be regarded as a branch of Paekche Buddhism
Nihon Shoki, volumes 22, Story of Suiko. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[McCarthy_and_Sekimori-1] Kasahara, Kazuo; McCarthy, Paul; Sekimori, Gaynor (2001). A History of Japanese religion. Kosei Pub. p. 57. ISBN 4-333-01917-6. As soon as the temple was completed, in 596, the priest Hyechong, who had arrived from Paekche the previous year, too up residence there. Thus Paekche's influence on Asuka Buddhism was immense; indeed, Asuka Buddhism can be regarded as a branch of Paekche Buddhism

[shoki-2] Nihon Shoki, volumes 22, Story of Suiko. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 June 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2010.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)