Juryō 壽靈 — Late-Nara / early-Heian Japanese Kegon 華嚴 (Huayan) monk of Tōdaiji 東大寺, active in the late 8th / early 9th century. He is conventionally placed in the generation immediately following Rōben 良辨 (689–774, the Tōdaiji founder) and is a contemporary or near-contemporary of Zenju 善珠 (724–797).
His sole surviving canonical work is Huāyán wǔjiào zhāng zhǐshì 華嚴五教章指事 (KR6t0033, T72n2337), a six-fascicle sub-commentary on Fa-zang’s Wǔ jiào zhāng 華嚴五教章 KR6a0011 — and this is the earliest substantial Japanese sub-commentary on Fa-zang’s classic preserved in the canon, founding the long Tōdaiji-Kegon Wǔ jiào zhāng commentarial tradition that continues through Kikai KR6t0034, Gyōnen KR6t0035, Shinjō KR6t0036, and the rest of the medieval-Edo Kegon school.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001604. The reference jinglu.cbeta.org records him also as the author of a Huāyán yīchéng jiàoyì fēnjì zhāng jì 華嚴一乘教義分齊章記.
Works:
- KR6t0033 Huāyán wǔjiào zhāng zhǐshì 華嚴五教章指事 (T72n2337), 6 fasc.