Kukai Biography | Poet

Kukai ( ), also known posthumously as Kobo-Daishi (, The Grand Master Who Propagated the Buddhist Teaching ), 774–835, was a Japanese monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism. Shingon followers usually refer to him by the honorific titles of O-Daishi-sama ( ) and Henjo-Kongo ( ) .