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Tiantai

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Tiantai Summary
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TIANTAI. The Tiantai tradition of Chinese Māhāyana Buddhism is a lineage centered around the writings of the monk Zhiyi (538–597) and his successors. This tradition is characterized by the emphasis it places on the practice of...
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Tendaishū Summary
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TENDAISHŪ. The Japanese Tendai School takes its name from the Tiantai (Japanese, Tendai) School in China, which was located on Mount Tiantai. Japanese monks carefully studied the Tiantai texts they obtained in China, but after the ninth century...
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Tiantai (天台宗, Wade-Giles: T'ien T'ai) is one of the important sects of Buddhism in China, Korea and Japan, also called the Lotus School because of its emphasis on the Lotus Sutra. It was founded by Zhiyi (智顗, Wade-Giles: Chih-I) (538–597)...


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Philosophy East and West
Setup, Punch Line, And The Mind-body Problem: A Neo-tiantai Approach.
10/01/2000: 16,895 words, approx. 56 pages
This essay will attempt to apply certain general principles and ideas deriving from the Tiantai Buddhist tradition to the classical mind-body problem, an issue that is not posed as such in the tradition but that nonetheless is given an implicit solution there. It is...
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Philosophy East and West
Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought.(Book Review)
01/01/2004: 2,523 words, approx. 8 pages
By Brook Ziporyn. Harvard-Yenching Monograph no. 51. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 482. Hardcover $60.00. Does Mahayana Buddhism have a problem with evil? Buddhism generally focuses on ignorance (a problem of understanding) rather than evil (Abrahamic sin is more a...
 


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