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Tendai

is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school.

David W. Chappell frames the relevance of Tendai for a universal Buddhism:

Tendai (disambiguation)

Tendai is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism. It may also refer to:

Usage examples of "tendai".

Buddhist enlightenment by their own efforts, as had the followers of Hinayana and even of the Maha-yanist sects of Shingon and Tendai esotericism.

This was because Lord Wakamatsu had built it to atone for his destruction of three dozen Jodo, Nichiren, Tendai, and Shingon monasteries, and the slaughter of five thousand monks, together with their families and supporters.

In his declining years he was made the Abbot of a monastery, the recognized authority on the Four Doctrines of the Tendai sect of Mount Hiei.

Those who have seen him lately say that to every man he met he had been cursing the rottenness and the depravity of our Tendai priesthood.

Was it not by imperial decree that the Tendai monastery had been established on Mount Hiei?

Tadamori and Kiyomori be allowed to trample underfoot the dignity of the Tendai Church?

Togano-o Hills, where he dreamed of one day restoring the Tendai sect in all its purity, and he had lately gone to live in the decaying villa that Toba Sojo had once occupied.

According to the Tendai sect, the best and the worst go immediately where they deserve, but those of a medium nature go through this process.

In the Tendai sect of Buddhists there are sixty volumes of the theological writings which are considered most authoritative for their doctrine.

China in 804 and returned to found the Tendai sect of Buddhism at the Enryakuji, a temple he had earlier opened on Mount Hiei northeast of Kyoto.

Shingon that, in order to meet the competition, the Tendai sect also evolved a form of esotericism.

Kamakura period, Honen received his early priestly training at the Tendai center on Mount Hiei.

He went through his formative years in an age when the fortunes of the imperial court and those institutions that supported it, including the Tendai and Shingon churches, were far lower than they had been during the youth of Honen or even of Shinran.

After a number of years of study at the Tendai center on Mount Hiei and elsewhere, he formed an apocalyptic view of the deterioration of Japan from within and its destruction from without.

If the ceremony is done with complete surrender and devotion, the Tendai priest said, peace will result which, in turn, will give rise to insight.