1 | When he was but twelve years old he was already studying Tendai philosophical speculation. | |
2 | A farmer requested a Tendai priest to recite sutras for his wife, who had died. | |
3 | “性具思想”是天台宗的根本思想,也是智者大师的千古绝唱。
"Native has thought" is the basic thought of Tian Tai roof also Master Zhi Zhe's external swan song too. | |
4 | 柳宗元一生,尤其是他的晚年与佛教特别是天台宗、禅宗结下了不解之缘。
All Liu Zongyuan's life, especially his later years, was irrevocably committed to Buddhism (Tiantai Sect and Chan Sect). | |
5 | 中国天台宗在五代宋初呈现的中兴之势与高丽入学僧的推动密切相关。
The rejuvenation of Tiantai sect in the five Dynasty and early Song Dynasty is connected firmly with the transmission of Gaoli monks. | |
6 | 为南中国的宗教文化中心,中国南禅、天台宗、曹洞宗和禅宗南岳、青原两系之发源地。
Hengshan is also the religion culture center of the South China and the cradle land of Chinese south Ch'an the T'ien-t'ai School the C'ao-d'ong School. | |
7 | 从天台宗在欧美的传播方式来看,主要有天台宗道场的创设、学者研究与宣讲、网络传播等途径。
Dissemination methods and channels of the Sect mainly include founding rites, researching Buddhism and spreading Tiantai Sect by the Internet, etc. | |
8 | 这种“启迪之路”的宗教仪式起源于8世纪。1885年以来,只有其他46位佛教天台宗的大师完成了这种仪式,而这些大师都被称为“马拉松大师”。
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. | |
9 | 始建于隋天皇十八年(598年),初名天台寺,是依据天台宗创始人智者大师亲手所画的样式所建的。
It was originally built in 598 AD during the Sui Dynasty, and named as Tiantai Temple at the beginning. It was built according to the design from the founder - Grand Master Zhiyi). | |
10 | 本文主要著重天台禅观与茶禅掌故的考察,企图证明「茶禅一味」在中国天台宗与茶禅发展中,已然成形。
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. | |
11 | 而西方净土的崇拜则是龙华寺净土崇拜的主要特色,它是由一系列信奉净土的高僧驻锡而形成的。西方净土与天台宗在龙华寺的紧密结合构成了该寺净土崇拜的另一特色。
In history many venerable monks who believed in Pure Land used to live in Longhua Temple, which formed the main character of Western Pure Land worship in Longhua Temple. | |
12 | 天台宗智者大师十分重视观无量寿佛经变中“十六观”修持法门,在其《法华三昧忏仪》一文中,还着重强调发愿往生西方净土。
The great master ZHI-Yi of the Tian Tai Sect had put emphasis on the Sixteen Views to Meditation in The Amitayur-buddha-dhyanasutra and the strong votive to be reborn to the Pure-land in the West. |