Tiantai | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-15

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Tiantai


00:01:06 1 History
00:02:26 1.1 Early figures
00:03:57 1.2 Zhiyi
00:05:29 1.3 Zhanran
00:07:06 1.4 Post-Tang crisis and Song revival
00:11:00 1.5 Yuan, Ming and Qing
00:12:37 2 Texts
00:15:51 3 Classification of teachings
00:16:19 3.1 Five Periods
00:17:25 3.2 Eight Teachings
00:17:39 3.2.1 Four Doctrines
00:18:06 3.2.2 Fourfold Methods
00:18:36 4 Teachings
00:19:24 4.1 The Threefold Truth
00:20:06 4.2 Three Contemplations
00:20:41 4.3 The Fourfold Teachings
00:20:59 5 Meditation-practice
00:23:59 6 Influence
00:24:45 7 See also



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Tiantai (Chinese: 天台; pinyin: PRC Standard Mandarin: Tiāntāi, ROC Standard Mandarin: Tiāntái) is a school of Buddhism in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam that reveres the Lotus Sutra as the highest teaching in Buddhism. In Japan the school is known as Tendai, in Korea as Cheontae, and in Vietnam as Thiên thai.
The name is derived from the fact that Zhiyi (538–597 CE), the fourth patriarch, lived on Tiantai Mountain. Zhiyi is also regarded as the first major figure to make a significant break from the Indian tradition, to form an indigenous Chinese system. Tiantai is sometimes also called "The Lotus School", after the central role of the Lotus Sutra in its teachings.During the Sui dynasty, the Tiantai school became one of the leading schools of Chinese Buddhism, with numerous large temples supported by emperors and wealthy patrons. The school's influence waned and was revived again through the Tang dynasty and also rose again during the Song dynasty. Its doctrine and practices had an influence on Chinese Chan and Pure land Buddhism.