Tiantai
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thumb|300px|Mount Tiantai by Wu Bin, 1605, Honolulu Museum of Art
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35 sectionsContents
- History
- Zhiyi
- Tang era and Zhanran
- Song dynasty revival
- Song era Tiantai Pure Land
- Yuan, Ming and Qing
- Modern era
- Texts
- Tiantai Treatises
- Philosophy
- The Threefold Truth
- The Threefold Contemplation
- Mutual inclusion
- Three Thousand Realms in One Thought Moment
- The Subtle Dharma: One Reality, One Vehicle, many Skillful Means
- Buddhahood and Buddha-nature
- Inherent evil
- Classification of teachings
- Five Periods
- Eight Teachings
- The Four Siddhāntas
- The Six Degrees of Identity
- Practice
- Meditation (zhiguan)
- Repentance rites
- Pure Land practice
- Textual practices
- Esotericism
- Key Ancestors
- Influence
- See also
- References
- Sources
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|300px|Mount Tiantai by Wu Bin, 1605, Honolulu Museum of Art
Tiantai or '''T'ien-t'ai' () is an East Asian Buddhist school of Mahāyāna Buddhism that developed in 6th-century China. Drawing from earlier Mahāyāna sources such as Madhyamaka, founded by Nāgārjuna, who is traditionally regarded as the first patriarch of the school, Tiantai Buddhism emphasizes the "One Vehicle" () doctrine derived from the influential Lotus Sūtra, as well as the philosophy of its fourth patriarch, Zhiyi (538–597 CE), the principal founder of the tradition. Brook Ziporyn, professor of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy, states that Tiantai Buddhism is "the earliest attempt at a thoroughgoing Sinitic reworking of the Indian Buddhist tradition." According to Paul Swanson, scholar of Buddhist studies, Tiantai Buddhism grew to become "one of the most influential Buddhist traditions in China and Japan."