Kanri 觀理 — Heian Japanese Hossō 法相 (Yogācāra / Faxiang) scholar-monk, identified in the medieval transmission colophon to his only surviving work KR6o0014 as 東南觀理權大僧都 (“Kanri of the Southeastern [cloister], Provisional Senior Sōzu”). The 權大僧都 (gondai-sōzu) is one of the highest ranks of the medieval Japanese Buddhist clerical hierarchy, indicating that Kanri was a senior officer of the Hossō establishment. Precise lifedates are not preserved in standard biographical sources; on internal grounds he is conventionally placed in the late Heian period (c. 11th–12th c.), based on the citation of his work in twelfth-century Kōfuku-ji inmyō literature and the surviving copy-colophons that trace transmission lines back to him.
His one surviving canonical work is the Yīnmíng sìzhǒng xiāngwéi sījì 因明四種相違私記 (KR6o0014, T69n2275) — a three-fascicle private gloss-collection on the Four Contradictions (四相違), the most contested chapter of the Yīnmíng rù zhèng lǐ lùn / Yīnmíng rù zhèng lǐ lùn shū KR6o0003 / KR6o0008 tradition.
The transmission colophon to the 1513 manuscript witness records that it was copied by 英訓 Eikun, a Sanron-cum-inmyō śramaṇa aged 38, for use in preparation for the Hokke-e 法華會 debate; a 1707 colophon by 四聖坊法印晋性 Shisei records the manuscript’s repair after damage.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001989.
Source: DILA A001989; transmission colophons preserved in T69n2275.