# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kangan-giin
# Generated: 2026-08-20T23:54:03.264Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kangan-giin"
name: "Kangan Giin"
slug: "kangan-giin"
description: "Kangan Giin was a disciple of Dōgen and the founder of the Higo school of Sōtō Zen Buddhism. It has been claimed that his father was Emperor Go-Toba or Emperor Juntoku. He did much evangelization work in Kyūshū, where he founded Daiji-ji (大慈寺) in Kumamoto. Before practicing with Dōgen, Giin started his Buddhist path as a Tendai monk. He later abandoned that school and became a member of Daruma School under Kakuzen Ekan. Along with his fellow students Tettsū Gikai and Gien, Giin became a student of Dōgen when Giin's teacher Ekan himself became a student of Dōgen. Dōgen died without giving dharma transmission to Giin, but he received it later from Dōgen's primary disciple, Koun Ejō."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist monk"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kangan_Giin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1217"
deathDate: "1300-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.53
  momentum:             0.6486486486486487
  historical:           4.807092
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangan_Giin"
    title: "Kangan Giin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangan_Giin"
    title: "Kangan Giin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangan_Giin"
    title: "Kangan Giin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%92%E5%B7%8C%E7%BE%A9%E5%B0%B9"
    title: "寒巌義尹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangan_Giin"
    title: "Kangan Giin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3192646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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