Kukai (Kobo Daishi), Japanese Monk(774-835)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Kukai
• Known as: Kobo Daishi
• Birth: July 27, 774, Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
• Death: April 22, 835, Mount Koya, Koya, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
• Language: Japanese
• Who he was: Japanese monk and founder of Shingon Buddhism; fifty religious works, including Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence; The Meaning of Sound, Word, Reality; Meanings of the Word Hum

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