Article: The "marathon monk," Venerable Genshin Fujinami of the Japanese Tendai Buddhist sect, completed a seven-year run through the Hiei Mountain range in Japan Sept. 21.(PEOPLE)(Brief Article)

Article: Close Voices from Afar.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
Czech Music;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... practical experience (including many years of practising Buddhism of the Tendai school in the celebrated monastery under Hiei Mountain in Kyoto), inspired and helped to arrange not only this particular meeting, but all the previous meetings between the ...

Article: A message for everyone in scrolls.(Religion)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  October 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... subjects of these pieces, assembled for the occasion by the Japanese Tendai Calligraphy Association, derive from Buddhist philosophy ... 1995, the institute in East Chatham is the head temple of Japanese Tendai Buddhism in North America. It is dedicated to presenting ...

Dictionary definition: Tendai Shū
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      700+ words ... ... the esoteric tradition of Buddhism came to dominate Japanese Tendai even though Chinese Tʾien-tʾ ... maintained its distance from it. A further synthesis of Japanese Tendai occurred when attempts were made to include Shinto ...

Dictionary definition: Nichiren
A Dictionary of Buddhism;      700+ words ... ... school needed to return to its teachings, given by Chinese T'ien-t'ai founder Chih-i (538–97) and Japanese Tendai founder Saichō (767–822), promulgating the Lotus Sūtra as the Buddha's definitive ...

Article: 2005 International Lotus Sutra Conference: sponsored by Rissho ...
Buddhist-Christian Studies;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Jizang (Kanno Hiroshi), interpretations of the theory of Buddha-nature (Linda Penkower and Sandra Wawrytko), later Japanese Tendai interpretations (Paul Groner and Jacqueline Stone), and the making of vows in the Lotus Sutra (Shinozaki Michio ...

Article: Madhyamika Thought in China. (book reviews)
Philosophy East and West;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Faith in Mahayana. After Tsung-mi abridged Fatsang's commentary of this text, Chinese Buddhists--when compared with Japanese Tendai scholastics--generally lost touch with the sharp edges of the original Indian four-cornered dialectics. And in one ...

Article: Jokei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... was the topic of a famous, and unusually bitter, debate between the Hosso monk Tokuitsu and Saicho, the founder of the Japanese Tendai school. (The latter argued, on the basis of the One Vehicle doctrine of the Lotus Sutra, that all beings can attain ...