816 AD
Founding of Koyasan, by tradition
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Shingon and pilgrimage
Tradition associates the foundation with Kukai; Koyasan becomes a Shingon and pilgrimage centre.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 816
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- Stanford Encyclopedia — Kūkai (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2006-10-03
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2026-09-10
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
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