Zengi ［善議］ (729–812): A priest of the Three Treatises (Sanron) school in Japan. He studied the Three Treatises doctrine under Dōji of Daian-ji temple in Nara and later went to China to further his studies. After returning to Japan, he lived at Daian-ji and preached the Three Treatises doctrine, gaining renown for his learning. Anchō and Gonsō were his disciples. Zengi was among the more than ten eminent priests of the six schools of Nara who assembled to listen to Dengyō lecture on the Tendai doctrine at Takao-dera temple in 802.