Seated Jie Daishi (慈恵大師坐像) is an anonymous wooden sculpture dated from 1286 depicting Jie Daishi (Priest Ryōgen), property of the Kongōrin-ji temple in Aishō, Shiga.

[1] Ryōgen (912–985), also known as Jie Daishi, was the 18th chief abbot of Enryaku-ji, the head Tendai monastery located on Mount Hiei in Ōtsu.

He is considered a restorer of the Tendai school of Mahayana Buddhism,[2] and credited for reviving Enryaku-ji.

[3] It was Ryōgen's son Renmyo who requested the creation of a posthumous portrait of his father, in prayer for his rebirth in the Pure Land, the celestial realm in Mahayana Buddhism.

[4] The sculpture is often on display in Room 3 of the Honkan (Japanese Gallery) of the Tokyo National Museum.