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Dōshō
1. (629–700). Japanese monk and first transmitter of Hossō (Chin., Fa-hsiang) teachings to Japan. He travelled to T'ang China where he studied Consciousness-only (citta-mātra) thought with both Hsüan-tsang and K'uei-chi, as well as Ch'an and Pure Land Buddhism. He is also remembered for his public engineering projects such as road- and bridge-building, and for being the first Japanese monk to be cremated upon death.

2. (798–875). An early priest of the Japanese Shingon school, and one of Shingon-founder Kūkai's ten major disciples. He is remembered as a skilled lecturer, ritualist, administrator, and restorer of temples.

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Dōshō

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Dōshō (629–700). Japanese Buddhist monk who founded the Hossō school. Hossō is ‘the dharma-characteristics’ school: it maintained that all appearances are reducible to the consciousnesses, which in turn are necessarily of the same nature. It was one of the six schools of the Nara period (710–94).

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