Zōshun 藏俊 / 蔵俊 (1104–1180) — Late-Heian Japanese Hossō 法相 (Yogācāra / Faxiang) scholar-monk of Kōfuku-ji 興福寺 in Nara, and the leading Hossō scholiast of his generation. The standard Hossō kechimyaku lineage places him after the great Heian Hossō teachers Ryōchū 良忠 and Zōga 增賀, in the central scholastic line of the Kōfuku-ji Yuima-e 維摩會 lecturer-tradition.
He is the compiler of two principal works in the Taishō canon:
- Chū-shin Hossōshū shōso 注進法相宗章疏 (KR6q0001, T55n2181) — the standard medieval Japanese catalogue of Hossō-school commentarial literature.
- Yīnmíng dàshū chāo 因明大疏抄 (KR6o0010, T68n2271) — a forty-one-fascicle topical encyclopaedia of Buddhist-logic exegesis, organised by koto 事 (“topics”) rather than by lemmatic order, drawing exhaustively on the Chinese commentarial tradition (窺基, 慧沼, 智周, 定賓 Dìngbīn, 西明 Xīmíng, etc.) and on the earlier Japanese commentaries (Zenju’s Myōtō shō KR6o0009, Genbō, Ryōben). The Daishō shō became the standard Kamakura-era reference work for Japanese inmyō scholarship and is exceptionally important as a source for early-Heian and Nara Hetuvidyā teaching otherwise lost.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001886.
Source: DILA A001886; standard Japanese Hossō-school biographical sources; Heian kōsō-den compendia.