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Tiantai Buddhism (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 1

Preferred form: Tiantai Buddhism

Used for/see from:

Chʻŏntʻae (Sect)
Earlier heading: Tendai Buddhism
Tʻien-tʻai (Sect)
Earlier heading: Tʻien-tʻai Buddhism

See also:

Broader heading: Mahayana Buddhism

Notes

Acad. Am. encyc.: v. 3, p. 540 (In the 6th cent., the monk Zhiyi (Chih-i) consolidated the Tiantai (Tʻien-tʻai) school, which sought to order all Buddhist teachings into a set hierarchy culminating in the text known as the Lotus Sutra.)

Britannica Micro. (Tʻien-tʻai, Japanese Tendai, rationalist school of Buddhist thought that takes its name from the mountain in southeastern China where its founder and greatest exponent, Chih-i, lived and taught in the 6th cent.; Tʻien-tʻai Mountains: pinyin Tiantai Shan)