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Tendai (iou)



Tendai noun. E18.
[Japanese from Chinese Tiantai, the mountain in Zhejiang (Chekiang) province, SE China where the doctrines of the sect were formulated.]
A Buddhist sect introduced into Japan from China by the monk Saicho (767-822), founded by Zhi Yi (515-97) and characterized by elaborate ritual, moral idealism, and philosophical eclecticism.