Embassy to Tang China of 804
延暦の遣唐使
Event · embassy · 804
In 804 Emperor Kanmu allowed the monk Saichō to join an imperially sponsored embassy to China to study Tendai Buddhism1; Kūkai, who travelled with the same embassy, came back in 806 with the esoteric teachings of Shingon2. The two founded the Tendai and Shingon schools of the Heian period. Mason 2005, pp. 122–123. ↩ Ebd., pp. 124–125, und Tōji, 東寺の歴史, 「唐で密教を学んで帰国した弘法大師空海」. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005. Tōji, 東寺の歴史: 東寺の歴史, https://toji.or.jp/history/ (zuletzt abgerufen am 31.10.2026).