Editing Ennin (section)

=== Trip to China ===
In 838, Ennin was in the party which accompanied [[Fujiwara no Tsunetsugu]]'s [[Japanese_missions_to_Imperial_China|diplomatic mission]] to the [[Tang dynasty]] Imperial court.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA211&dq= "Fujiwara no Tsunetsugu"] in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 211.</ref><ref name=Sansom>{{Cite book |last=Sansom |first=George |title=A History of Japan to 1334 |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1958 |isbn=0804705232 |page=138,221}}</ref>  The trip to [[China]] marked the beginning of a set of tribulations and adventures which he documented in [[Ennin's Diary|his journal]]. The journal describes an account of the workings of the government of China, which saw strong and able administrative control of the state and its provinces, even at a time of a supposed decline of the Tang dynasty. His writings also expanded on religious matters and commerce. He stayed in [[Xi'an]] for five years.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roberts |first=J. A. G. |url=http://archive.org/details/historyofchina0000robe_l0n0 |title=A history of China |date=1996 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-0-312-16334-1 |location=New York |pages=102 |language=en}}</ref>

Initially, he studied under two masters and then spent some time at [[Wutaishan]] ({{lang|ja|五臺山}}; Japanese: ''Godaisan''), a mountain range famous for its numerous Buddhist temples in [[Shanxi]] Province in China. Here, he learned {{nihongo|''go-e nembutsu''|五会念仏||"Five tone [[nembutsu]]"}} among other practices. Later he went to [[Chang'an]] (Japanese: Chōan), then the capital of China, where he was ordained into both [[mandala]] rituals: the [[Mahavairocana_Tantra|Mahāvairocana-sūtra]] and the [[Vajrasekhara_Sutra|Vajraśekhara-sūtra]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile of Jikaku Daishi| language=Japanese| url=https://www.tendai.or.jp/daihoue/profile/jikaku.html| accessdate = 2022-02-12}}</ref> along with initiation and training in the [[Susiddhikara Sūtra]] tantra.<ref name="お寺">{{cite book | title = うちのお寺は天台宗 わが家の宗教を知る (双葉文庫) | publisher = 双葉社 | year = 2016 | asin = B01LWMY8TD | page=114}}</ref>  He also wrote of his travels by ship while sailing along the [[Grand Canal of China]].

Ennin was in China when the anti-Buddhist [[Emperor Wuzong of Tang]] took the throne in 840, and he lived through the [[Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution]] of 842–846.  As a result of the persecution, he was deported from China, returning to Japan in 847.<ref>Reischauer, ''Ennin's Travels in T'ang China''.</ref>