Tiantai

This source names Tiantai directly: "Press, is an academic introduction to Tiantai Buddhism's distinctive philosophical concept of emptiness and omnipresence, working from the school's own classical Chinese textual sources."

This source names Tiantai directly: "his journey to China in 804 to study Tiantai teachings."

A Chinese Mahayana school built on the Lotus Sutra.

Saicho carried the Tiantai teaching from China to Japan, where it became Tendai.

He is counted the founder of the school, and its doctrinal classification of the canon is his.

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The Great Compassion repentance rite that Tiantai developed is built around this dharani, which is why the school recites it at length rather than in passing.

Tiantai holds buddha-nature universal, and Zhanran extended it to insentient things, which is the position Japanese Tendai later took further still.

Dependent origination is affirmed as the ground of the emptiness the first truth states.

Zhiyi built the school on the Lotus Sutra's one vehicle, which gave him the warrant to arrange every other sutra as a stage on the way to it rather than as a rival to it.

The Lotus Sutra, ranked as the Buddha's final and complete teaching by the patriarch Zhiyi, is this school's central scripture.

The reckoning of the latter age was elaborated in Chinese Buddhism and carried in the Tiantai curriculum, from which the Japanese schools inherited it.

Zhiyi's own foundational treatise on Tiantai's own zhiguan meditation method, delivered and compiled entirely in China more than two centuries before the Japanese Tendai school existed to inherit it.

Emptiness is retained in full from Madhyamaka and is the first of the three truths.

The three truths, that a thing is empty, is provisionally there, and is both at once, are Tiantai's own contribution and the formulation Zhiyi used to move past the Indian two truths.

Tiantai reads the two truths of Madhyamaka as incomplete and preserves them inside the three rather than discarding them.

Non-injury is held in Tiantai.

The three poisons are held in Tiantai.

Not-self is held in Tiantai.

Impermanence is held in Tiantai.

The bodhisattva motivation is held in Tiantai.

Buddhahood is held in Tiantai as the goal every vehicle is directed at, and the school holds it open in principle to every being and to beings in every realm.

Giving is held in Tiantai as the first of the perfections.

Dharma is held in Tiantai, and the school's classification of the teachings is an account of how the whole of it is one dharma delivered in stages.

Suffering is held in Tiantai.

Original enlightenment as a developed body of teaching belongs to medieval Japanese Tendai rather than to Chinese Tiantai. The Chinese school supplies the material it is built from, chiefly the mutual containment of the ten realms, without arriving at the Japanese doctrine.

Karma is held in Tiantai.

Nirvana is held in Tiantai, and the school's reading of it is governed by the one vehicle: the cessation the earlier teaching describes is provisional and opens onto buddhahood.

Collected absorption is held in Tiantai, and Zhiyi's manual of calming and contemplation is one of the most detailed treatments of meditative practice in Chinese Buddhism.

Samsara is held in Tiantai, and the school's account of the three thousand realms present in a single moment of thought places samsara and awakening in the same instant rather than at two ends of a road.

Tiantai takes the question up as a matter of classification rather than of choosing a side: the school's scheme sorts the teachings into sudden and gradual, among other categories, and treats the Lotus as standing outside both.

The five aggregates are held in Tiantai.

The four immeasurables are held in Tiantai.

The four truths are held in Tiantai and are read through the school's classification as one of the levels at which the teaching is delivered.

The eightfold path is held in Tiantai.

The six realms are held in Tiantai, and the school counts them among the ten realms whose mutual containment is the ground of its central formula.

The three jewels and going for refuge are held in Tiantai.

The three marks are held in Tiantai.

The perfections are held in Tiantai.

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