Category:Tenkai

**Tenkai**
	Japanese buddhist monk
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Name in native language	天海;
Date of birth	1536; Takada
Date of death	13 November 1643
Place of burial	Rinnō-ji; Kita-in; Jigendō;
Country of citizenship	Japan;
Occupation	bhikkhu;
Family	Ashina clan;
Sibling	Tōyama Toshikage (uncertainty);
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日本語: 天海（てんかい、生年不詳 - 1643年11月13日）は、日本の安土桃山時代から江戸時代初期にかけての天台宗の僧。南光坊天海（なんこうぼうてんかい）とも呼ばれる。諡号は慈眼大師。

English: Tenkai (天海, ? – Novenber 13, 1643) was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods. He achieved the rank of Daisōjō, the highest rank of the priesthood. His Buddhist name was first Zuifū (随風), which he changed to Tenkai in 1590. Also known as Nankōbō Tenkai (南光坊天海), he died in 1643, and was granted the posthumous title of Jigen Daishi (慈眼大師) in 1648.