存空

Cúnkōng 存空

Mid-seventeenth-century Buddhist abbot (fǎzhǔ 法主) at Kōfuku-ji 興福寺 in Nagasaki, Japan — the principal Sino-Japanese Buddhist contact point during the immediate pre-Ōbaku Míng-Qīng transition. Instigator and Japanese kunten-annotator of 益證 Yìzhèng Zìxīn’s Bōrě xīnjīng yīguàn shū (KR6c0176), composed at Kōfuku-ji’s west wing guest-residence in autumn 1648.