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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. The Tendai school, which has been based on Mount Hiei since its inception, rose to…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tendai | is a | Commentary on the Meaning of the Bodhisattva Precepts | 0.90 | text |
| Jōdo-shū | instance of | various monks left Tendai to found new Buddhist schools | 0.80 | text |
| Jōdo Shinshū | instance of | various monks left Tendai to found new Buddhist schools | 0.80 | text |
| Nichiren-shū | instance of | various monks left Tendai to found new Buddhist schools | 0.80 | text |
| Sōtō Zen | instance of | various monks left Tendai to found new Buddhist schools | 0.80 | text |
| Zenyu | instance of | monks | 0.80 | text |
| Senkan | instance of | monks | 0.80 | text |
| Shinto | instance of | Tendai's inclusive view of religion allowed it to reconcile Buddhist doctrine with aspects of Japanese culture | 0.80 | text |
| Japanese aesthetics | instance of | Tendai's inclusive view of religion allowed it to reconcile Buddhist doctrine with aspects of Japanese culture | 0.80 | text |
| Zen or the precepts | instance of | and avoided an obsession with any one category of the Buddhist tradition | 0.80 | text |
| Daochuo | instance of | Genshin drew upon past Chinese Pure Land teachers | 0.80 | text |
| Shandao.The nenbutsu was further popularized by the Tendai monk Hōnen | instance of | Genshin drew upon past Chinese Pure Land teachers | 0.80 | text |
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