When he was but twelve years old he was already studying Tendai philosophical speculation.

"Native has thought" is the basic thought of Tian Tai roof also Master Zhi Zhe's external swan song too.

This essay attempts to identify the concept of "common taste in tea-drinking and Zen" in the evolution of Chinese Tiantai Sect and Zen from tea.

A farmer requested a Tendai priest to recite sutras for his wife, who had died.

Since 1885, only 46 other so-called "marathon monks" of the Tendai sect have lived through the ritual, which dates to the 8th century and is believed to be a path to enlightenment.