Zōshun 増春 — Mid-Heian Japanese Kegon 華嚴 (Avataṃsaka-school) monk, bearing the title Daihōshi 大法師 (great Dharma-master). Active in the Tenryaku 天暦 era (= 947–957 CE), in which he composed his sole surviving canonical work, Huā-yán yī-chéng yì sī-jì 華嚴一乘義私記 (KR6t0023, T72n2327). The Taishō text is an Edo-period (Enpō 7 = 1679) abridgment of an originally three-fascicle private record, transmitted further in 1840 through Ryōju Rikai 龍珠理海’s hand.
The work’s references to Fa-zang’s 法藏 Tàn-xuán jì and its handling of the jiào-pàn (teaching-classification) of the Prajñāpāramitā in relation to the Avataṃsaka place Zōshun in the mainstream Tōdaiji-Kegon doctrinal tradition of the mid-10th century.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001651. No further biographical detail is preserved.
Works:
- KR6t0023 Huāyán yīchéng yì sījì 華嚴一乘義私記 (T72n2327), 1 fasc., composed Tenryaku era (947–957).