Jōjin

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title: Jōjin
text: Jōjin was a Japanese Tendai monk who documented his journey to the Chinese Buddhist centres of Mount Tiantai and Mount Wutai in 1072–1073 in San Tendai Godai san ki (參天台五臺山記). Jōjin's home monastery was Enryaku-ji on Mount Hiei. He sent a cache of printed texts back to Japan in 1073 covering translations made since Chōnen's (奝然) mission in 984. Literature related to Jōjin figures prominently in Nihonjinron - a genre of texts that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity. They
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