Tiantai - Wikipedia
Tiantai or T'ien-t'ai (Chinese: 天台; pinyin: PRC Standard Mandarin: Tiāntāi, ROC Standard Mandarin: Tiāntái, Wu Taizhou dialect (Tiantai native language): Tí Taî) is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China. [1]
Tiantai | History, Teachings & Practices | Britannica
Tiantai, rationalist school of Buddhist thought that takes its name from the mountain in southeastern China where its founder and greatest exponent, Zhiyi, lived and taught in the 6th century. The school was introduced into Japan in 806 …
Tiantai Buddhism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nov 19, 2014 · Tiantai is the name of a mountain and surrounding geographical location in China, literally meaning “platform of the sky”, but the term is traditionally used to denote a particular school of Mahāyāna Buddhism with historical connections to that locale.
Tiantai zong - Encyclopedia of Buddhism
Tiantai zong (J. Tendaishū; K. Ch’ŏnt’ae chong 天台宗) (“Terrace of Heaven School”) is one of the main schools East Asian Buddhism. It is also sometimes called the “Lotus school” (C. Lianhua zong) because of its emphasis the Lotus Sutra.
Tiantai Buddhism in China - Learn Religions
Mar 6, 2017 · Tiantai was the first school of Buddhism to consider the Lotus Sutra to be the most cumulative and accessible expression of the Buddha's teaching. It is also known for its doctrine of the Three Truths; its classification of Buddhist doctrines into Five Periods and Eight Teachings; and its particular form of meditation.
Founder of Tiantai, Philosopher, Meditation Master - Britannica
Zhiyi (born 538, Hunan province, China—died 597, Mount Tiantai, Zhejiang province) was a Buddhist monk, founder of the eclectic Tiantai (Japanese: Tendai) Buddhist sect, which was named for Zhiyi’s monastery on Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang, China. His name is frequently but erroneously given as Zhikai.
Tien Tai (Tientai) - Buddhism Guide
Tiantai (天台宗, Wade-Giles: T’ien T’ai) is one of the thirteen schools of Buddhism in China and Japan, also called the Lotus Sutra School because of its emphasis on the supremacy of that scripture. It was founded by Zhiyi (智顗, Wade-Giles: Chih-I) …
Chinese Foundations | Tendai Buddhist Institute - Jiunzan Tendaiji
Zhiyi 智顗 (538–597) of Mt. Tiantai was one of the first and most influential scholar-monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Today he is regarded as the founder of the Tiantai School of Chinese Buddhism, the parent tradition of the Japanese Tendai School.
What is Tendai? | Tendai Buddhist Institute - Jiunzan Tendaiji
Tendai Buddhism incorporates insights from Indian and Chinese philosophical traditions, the study of the Lotus Sutra and other Buddhist texts, meditation traditions like Zen as well as Calming and Insight Meditation (shamata-vipashyanna), Pure Land and Tantric practices.
Tiantai Mountain - Wikipedia
Tiantai Mountain (also Tí Taî in the local language) is a mountain in Tiantai County, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. [2] Its highest peak, Huading, reaches a height of 1,138 meters (3,734 ft). [2]