Tan’e 湛慧 (1676–1747; alternate ordinations-name Shinbai 信培; gō Chōren-sha Nin’yo 澄蓮社忍誉) was a Japanese Edo-period (江戶時代) Pure Land 浄土宗 scholar-monk, born in Kyoto at Sanjō Shirakawa-bashi. Ordained at age 14 under Sokuan 息菴 at the Kakai-in 華開院 in Kyoto; received the denpō (dharma transmission) at 17 from Kakuei 廓瑩 at the Ryōzen-ji 霊山寺 in Edo; from age 25 served as abbot of the Kakai-in.
Tan’e is one of the central figures of the Tokugawa Abhidharma revival (Kusha-gaku 倶舎學), which produced the only sustained early-modern Japanese scholastic engagement with Vasubandhu’s Kośa. Beyond his Pure Land sectarian study, he is recorded as having studied Yogācāra, Huayan, and the Vinaya, and as having been a lay student of the Sorai-school Confucian Ogyū Sorai 荻生徂徠. His principal work is the thirty-fascicle Abhidharma-kośa-bhāṣya zhǐyào chāo 阿毘達磨倶舍論指要鈔 (KR6l0025, T63n2250), a verse-by-verse running commentary on Xuanzang’s translation of the Kośa (KR6l0023), which together with Kaidō 快道’s Hōgi 法義 (KR6l0026) defined the canonical shape of Edo Kushagaku.
Note on the DILA Authority record: DILA entry A001308 conflates the present figure with an earlier homonymous Kamakura-period Rinzai monk, Zuijōbō Tan’e 随乘房湛慧 (active 1240s), founder of the Yokodake Sōfuku-ji 横岳崇福寺 at Dazaifu and a disciple of Enni Ben’en 圓爾 (1202–1280). The alternate names Yokodake Tan’e 横岳湛慧 and Sōfuku Tan’e 崇福湛慧 belong to that earlier Tan’e, not to the author of the Shiyōshō. The teacher-relation to 圓爾 recorded in the DILA listRelation is for the Kamakura Tan’e and should not be applied to the Edo Pure Land scholar of the same name.
Sources: Shinsan Jōdoshū Daijiten (s.v. 信培); Kotobank — Nihon jinmei daijiten (s.v. 湛慧, 1676–1747); 木村宣彰 Edo-jidai Kushagaku no kenkyū (Kyōto: Hōzōkan, 1992).