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.

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 (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 …

A perspective by the laste Rev.Keisho Leary (California Tendai Buddhist Monastery) on the variety of practices withing the Tendai Buddhist tradition.

Mar 17, 2015 · Tendai has been a syncretistic movement, embracing other Buddhist schools, from Vinaya to Shingon and Zen, as well as Shinto, the indigenous Japanese tradition, but its distinctive focus continues to be the teachings of the Lotus Sutra.

Tendai (天台宗; Tendai-shū) is a Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai) or Lotus Sutra school.

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 ...