Concept

Huiguo

Overview

Huiguo (Chinese: 惠果; pinyin: Huìguǒ; Wade–Giles: Hui-kuo) (746–805) was a Buddhist monk of Tang China who studied and taught Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, a Vajrayana tradition recently imported from India. Later Huiguo would become the teacher of Kūkai, founder of Shingon Buddhism, a prominent school of Buddhism in Japan.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• India
• Korea
• Kūkai
• Tang dynasty
• Vajrayana
• Central Asia
• Java

Place in the tradition

Part of Buddhist philosophy.

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