biography
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Ennin or Jikaku Daishi
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pronunciation:
[diyshee]
| biography:
| Japanese Tendai Buddhist, the abbot of Mt Hiei monastery. He travelled widely in Tang China as a pilgrim and member of an official embassy, keeping an accurate diary which recorded impressions of careful bureaucracy, strong government, advanced social development, prosperity, and a resplendent aristocracy and court. The diary is a major source on Tang China, and superior to Marco Polo's later portrait of the Yuan period. |
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