Subject
Kūkai 空海
The monk who brought the esoteric teaching home from Tang China, born in Sanuki in 774; known for eleven centuries afterwards as Kōbō Daishi, the figure who comes to a door and asks for water.
Note
- Kūkai and the Daishi A monk born in 774, and the figure Japan came to call Kōbō Daishi: how the records of one life and the legends of the other part ways.
Volume
Mystics of Old Japan
KŪKAI
Tales of the Monk Who Became a Legend
Twenty-six Japanese tales of Kūkai — the monk who brought the secret teaching home from Tang China, and the legend Japan has known for eleven centuries as Kōbō Daishi.
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