Shinkō 眞興 / 真興 (935–1004) — Heian-era Japanese Hossō 法相 (Yogācāra / Faxiang) scholar-monk of Kōfuku-ji 興福寺 in Nara, with substantial scholastic output extending into Esoteric (Shingon-Hossō synthesis) and Esoteric-ritual exegesis. Best known for his Hossō-school logic-and-doctrine commentaries on the Vijñaptimātratā tradition, but also produced consequential commentaries on Esoteric ritual manuals — exemplifying the late-Heian convergence of Hossō scholastic method with Esoteric ritual interpretation.
His works in the Taishō / canonical Buddhist corpus include:
- Liánhuá tāizàngjiè yíguǐ jiěshì 蓮華胎藏界儀軌解釋 (KR6j0011, T61n2231) — interpretive commentary on the Garbhadhātu mandala ritual manuals.
- Fànmǎrìluó dūshāng sījì 梵m日羅駄覩私記 (KR6j0040, T61n2232) — sījì (private notes) on the Vajradhātu dhātu (vajra-realm) practice.
- Yīnmíng sìzhǒng xiāngwéi luè sījì 因明四種相違略私記 — Hossō logical treatise.
- Sìzhǒng xiāngwéi duànluè jì 四種相違斷略記 — Hossō logical treatise.
- KR6t0015 Wéishí yì sījì 唯識義私記 (T71n2319), 12 fasc. — the major late-Heian Japanese Hossō summa, organised as a ten-gate exposition of consciousness-only.
He represents the Heian intellectual consolidation in which Hossō-trained scholars produced systematic exegetical work on both Yogācāra (their own school’s tradition) and on the Esoteric corpus that was diffusing widely through the Japanese monastic establishment — a pattern paralleled in figures like Hōzō (法藏) and the later Tōji / Daigo-ji Esoteric scholiasts.
Source: DILA Buddhist Person Authority A000961; standard Japanese Hossō-school biographical sources; Heian kōsō-den compendia.