Tang Dynasty Battle Hero - Jian Zhen

Jian Zhen crossed the Japanese precepts, went to sea six times, experienced hardships, and finally reached Japan with double blindness.

Jian Zhen was the first master in China to go to Japan to create the Buddhist Vinaya.

At that time, the Japanese emperor, empress, crown prince, and other high-ranking officials all accepted the three masters and seven certificates of ordination and converted to Buddhist disciples.

Kanzen founded the Kōti-ji Temple in Nara District and wrote the Three Sutras of the Precepts, which was the beginning of the Japanese printing plate.

Jian Zhen was proficient in medicine and proficient in Materia Medica, and he brought the techniques of identification, preparation, formulation, collection, and application of Chinese medicine to Japan and taught medicine.

He was passionate about treating patients, so he enjoyed a high prestige in the Japanese medical community, known as the ancestor of Kampo medicine and the Shinnong of Japan.

Jian Zhen is revered as the first ancestor of the Japanese Vinaya, and in terms of creating statues and murals, he and his disciples used the most advanced technology of the Tang Dynasty, which added color to the formation of the artistic climax of the Japanese balance era.

Most of Jian Zhen and his disciples are good at calligraphy, and when they went to Japan, they carried the true works of Wang Xizhi and Xian Zhi's father and son, and their influence was as great as possible, and the Japanese people still love the art of Chinese calligraphy.

For the first time in Japan, Kanzen established a strict system of precepts, putting Japanese Buddhism on the right track.

It facilitated the government's control over Buddhism, eliminated the ills caused by neglect, and promoted The establishment of Buddhism as the national religion of Japan.