Tiantai

Legend has it that Sun-Tzu wrote the following passage from The Art of War while taking a dump on Tiantai mountain:

Regretsy – Oy Vey, Maria 2010

Shingon has inherited much of the metaphysics of Chinese Mahâyâna thought: e.g., the equation of hosshin and hôkai, traceable to Hua-yen Buddhism; and the equation of the hosshin with the universal Buddha-nature inherent in all beings as their “original enlightenment”, traceable to T™ien-t™ai (Tiantai; Jpn: Tendai) Buddhism.

Laughter 2009

Confucian reaction was evident in the emphasis of the Tiantai sect, founded (575) in the mountains of Zhejiang province by Zhiyi (531–597), upon education as necessary to the realization of the Buddha-nature.

420-479 2001

The Ch'nt'ae (Tiantai in Chinese) sect became very popular.

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(Scholars of Buddhism may want to argue that it was Nishida's own knowledge of Buddhism that remained too much at the level of personal experience, rather than the sophisticated teachings of the Mâdhyamaka, Yogâchâra, Tiantai, and Huayan traditions of Mahâyâna philosophy.)

The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006