29 Facts About Tendai

Tendai, known as the Tendai Lotus School is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saicho.

In English, the Japanese romanization Tendai is used to refer specifically to the Japanese school.

Tendai was asked by Emperor Kanmu to perform various esoteric rituals, and Saicho sought recognition from the Emperor for a new, independent Tendai school in Japan.

New Tendai school was therefore based on a combination of the doctrinal and meditative system of Zhiyi with esoteric Buddhist practice and texts.

Tendai's ideas were attacked by the more traditional Nara schools as well as the Sogo and they were not initially approved by the imperial court.

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Philosophically, the Tendai school did not deviate substantially from the beliefs that had been created by the Tiantai school in China.

Saicho had only received initiation in the Diamond Realm Mandala, and since the rival Shingon school under Kukai had received deeper training, early Tendai monks felt it necessary to return to China for further initiation and instruction.

Tendai is known for developing the ascetic practice circumambulating Mt.

Tendai wrote around a hundred works on Tendai doctrine and practice.

Tendai was an influential politician closely tied to the Fujiwara clan as well as a scholar.

In spite of the rise of these new competing schools which saw Tendai as being "corrupt", medieval Tendai remained a "a rich, varied, and thriving tradition" during the medieval period according to Jacqueline Stone.

Kamakura period Tendai produced a number of important figures of its own, including Jien ??, known as a historian and a poet, who wrote the Gukansho and numerous devotional poems.

Tendai Buddhism has several philosophical insights which allow for the reconciliation of Buddhist doctrine with aspects of Japanese culture such as Shinto and Japanese aesthetics.

Also central to Tendai thought is the notion that the phenomenal world, the world of our experiences, fundamentally is an expression of the Buddhist law.

Tendai Buddhism reveres the Lotus Sutra as the highest teaching in Buddhism.

Tendai sought instead to unite all of these elements on the basis of a single fundamental principle, the comprehensive and unifying ekayana spirit of the Lotus Sutra.

Tendai thought vigorously defends the idea that all beings have the potential for full buddhahood and thus that the Lotus Sutra was a teaching for all sentient beings.

Tendai thought frames its understanding of Buddhist practice on the Lotus Sutra's teaching of upaya or.

Tendai school was the locus of the development of the Japanese doctrine of hongaku ??, which holds that all beings are enlightened inherently and which developed in Tendai from the cloistered rule era through the Edo period.

Tendai argued that these teachings both derive from the same Buddha, since Mahavairocana and the Buddha of the Lotus Sutra are ultimately the same.

Pure Land Buddhist thought was further developed by a Tendai monk named Genshin who was a disciple of Ryogen, the 18th chief abbot or zasu of Mount Hiei.

Finally, Pure Land practices in Tendai were further popularized by former Tendai monk Honen, who established the first independent Pure Land school, the Jodo-shu, and whose disciples carried the teachings to remote provinces in one form or another.

One of the adaptations by the Tendai school was the introduction of esoteric Buddhist practice into Tendai Buddhism.

Tendai ordinations do not make use of the traditional Dharmaguptaka Vinaya Pratimoksha set of monastic rules.

Bodhisattva precepts in Tendai are all said to rely on three types of “pure precepts” :.

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Tendai school made extensive use of the Lotus Sutra in its interpretation of the bodhisattva precepts, even though the sutra does not itself contains a specific list of precepts.

Tendai believed that the Japanese people were naturally inclined to the Mahayana.

Tendai was a student of the Oxhead master Shunian, who resided at Chanlinsi Temple.

Tendai doctrine allowed Japanese Buddhists to reconcile Buddhist teachings with the native religious beliefs and practices of Japan.