Tiantai - Teachings

Teachings

See also: Ten suchnesses

David Chappell lists the most important teachings as the doctrines of:

  • The Threefold Truth,
  • The Threefold Contemplation,
  • The Fourfold Teachings,
  • The Subtle Dharma,
  • The Nonconceivable Discernment.

Nan Huaijin, a 20th-century Chán-teacher, summarizes the main teaching of the Tiantai school as the following:

  • The One Vehicle (Skt. Ekayāna),
  • The vehicle of attaining Buddhahood, as the main principle;
  • The three forms of śamatha-vipaśyanā correlated with the meditative perspectives of emptiness,
  • The mean, as the method of cultivating realization.

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