Zōga ［増賀］ (917–1003): A priest of the Tendai school in Japan. Born to the distinguished Tachibana family, he renounced secular life to devote himself as a priest to the Tendai practice. In 963 he retired to Tōnomine hill in Yamato Province, where he diligently practiced Tendai meditation and lectured on the Lotus Sutra, Great Concentration and Insight, The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, and other basic texts of the school. With these lectures, he won many disciples.