# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hui-kuo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:48:58.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hui-kuo"
name: "Hui-kuo"
slug: "hui-kuo"
description: "Huiguo (746–805) was a Buddhist monk of Tang China who studied and taught Chinese Esoteric Buddhism, a Vajrayana tradition recently imported from India. Later Huiguo would become the teacher of Kūkai, founder of Shingon Buddhism, a prominent school of Buddhism in Japan."
tagline: "Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Huiguo%2C_14th_century%2C_Kamakura%2C_National_Museum%2CTokyo..jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "743"
deathDate: "805"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.280208
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%83%A0%E6%9E%9C"
    title: "惠果"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huiguo"
    title: "Huiguo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huiguo"
    title: "Huiguo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui-kuo"
    title: "Hui-kuo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%81%B5%E6%9E%9C"
    title: "恵果"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%93%D0%BE"
    title: "Хуэй Го"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui-kuo"
    title: "Hui-kuo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BB%87_Qu%E1%BA%A3"
    title: "Huệ Quả"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q658650"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump