Kangaku (Kangaku ranking) means the title to be given to Buddhist monks who are in a commanding position with a high level of education and learning in religious schools of Japanese Buddhism after the end of modern times.
勧学とは、近世末から日本仏教の宗派の中で、教学の研鑽をきわめた指導的立場の僧侶に与えている称号のことである。