804 AD–806 AD
Kukai and Shingon
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Japanese Buddhist traditions · Vajrayāna
Kukai studied in China between 804 and 806 and developed Shingon in Japan. Transmission included doctrinal, ritual, and institutional adaptations.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- End
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 804–806
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
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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
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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