Tendai (天台宗, Tendai-shū), also known as the Tendai Dharma Flower School (天台法華宗, Tendai hokke shū, sometimes just Hokkeshū), is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saichō. [1]

In Japan, Tendai developed into a distinct school that profoundly impacted and influenced Japanese art, history, literature, philosophy and religion. The largest schools of Japanese Buddhism today (Zen, Pure Land, and Nichiren) were all founded by Tendai Buddhist monks.

Tendai emphasizes the historical Buddha Śākyamuni who represents the exoteric world, and the eternal Buddha Vairocana who represents the esoteric world of the Dharmakāya (the highest aspect of the threefold Buddha bodies). Both of them are one and the same.

As an officially recognized branch temple, Tendai Buddhist Institute is also the first fully authorized Tendai Buddhist training center for the education of priests and the establishment new Tendai Buddhist temples, dharma centers, and sanghas in North America and beyond.

Tendai (Japanese: 天台宗, Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Buddhism, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school. The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk Jianshen (鑑眞 Jp: Gishin) in the middle of …

The word “Tendai” is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese word “Tiantai,” the name of a mountain range in eastern China where the lineage of Zhiyi flourished. The Tendai tradition was first transmitted to Japan by Jianzhen 鑑眞 (688-763; aka, Ganjin), the famous Chinese scholar-monk precept master who established the ordination ...

Apr 17, 2023 · A look at the Tendai school, one of two esoteric sects that dominated Japanese Buddhism from the Heian period onward, having a huge influence on the subsequent development of the religion in...

Tendai (天台宗, Tendai-shū), also known as the Tendai Lotus School (天台法華宗 Tendai hokke shū, sometimes just "hokke shū"), is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition with significant esoteric elements that was officially established in Japan in 806 by the Japanese monk Saichō (posthumously known as Dengyō Daishi).

Japanese Tendai Buddhism consists of exoteric and esoteric traditions. Tendai School is the source of many Buddhist traditions in Japan such as Soto and Rinzai Zen tradition, Jyodo-syu Purland tradition, Jodo-Shin-syu True Pureland tradition, The Nichiren tradition, and others.

Tendai Buddhism incorporates insights from the Indian and Chinese philosophical traditions, the study of the Lotus Sutra and other Buddhist texts, meditation traditions like Zen as well as Calming and Insight meditation (shamata-vipashyanna), Pure Land and tantric practices.