Zen’an 慚安 — Early-Heian Japanese Hossō 法相 (Yogācāra) monk; compiler of Fǎxiāng dēngmíng jì 法相燈明記 (KR6t0006, T71n2310), a single-fascicle disputation record of the sixteen contested topics between Gangō-ji (the southern Hossō tradition of Gomyō and Zenju) and Kōfuku-ji (the northern Hossō tradition of Genbō). The work’s terminal colophon dates the composition to “the tenth month of Kōnin 6 (= 815), recorded at the Yuima-e Assembly,” fixing Zen’an’s floruit and identifying his institutional setting as the Yuima-e 維摩會 lecture-assembly tradition at Kōfuku-ji.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001623 records him solely through this canonical attribution; no biographical data has been independently recovered. The colophon styles him “Shamon, who has collected the essential positions of the master(s)” (沙門安集本師義), suggesting he was a junior Kōfuku-ji scholar serving as the redactor of disputation records rather than a primary disputant.
Works:
- KR6t0006 Fǎxiāng dēngmíng jì 法相燈明記 (T71n2310), 1 fasc., composed in 815.