# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roben
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:22:36.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roben"
name: "Rōben"
slug: "roben"
description: "Rōben (良弁、朗弁、良辨、朗辨) (689–773), also known as Ryōben, was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Kegon sect, and clerical founder of the Tōdai-ji temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. He is popularly known as the \"Golden Bell Practitioner\" . His life spanned the late Asuka period (538–710) to the early Nara period (710–794), a period associated with the establishment of Buddhism in Japan."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist monk"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R%C5%8Dben_(Todaiji).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "689"
deathDate: "0774-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.29
  momentum:             3.505007967220577
  historical:           6.580529333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%AF%E8%BE%A8"
    title: "良辨"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dben"
    title: "Rōben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dben"
    title: "Rōben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dben"
    title: "Rōben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%89%AF%E5%BC%81"
    title: "良弁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dben_S%C5%8Dj%C5%8D"
    title: "Rōben Sōjō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dben"
    title: "Rōben"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720819"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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