A scene from the “Illustrated Biographies of the Founders of the Kegon School” (華厳宗祖師絵伝) dating to the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in the collection of Kōzanji Temple (高山寺) up in northwest Kyoto, with text by the temple’s founder Myōe (明恵)
The scene depicts the young lady Shanmiao (善妙 Zenmyō) transforming into a dragon and safely escorting the Korean monk & Kegon founder Uisang (義湘 Gijō) across the sea from Tang China back to the Korean peninsula
Image from a booklet acquired at the temple March 30, 1997












