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Tendai (天台) is a Japanese school of Buddhism, a descendant of the Chinese Tiantai or Lotus Sutra school.
The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk Jianshen (鑑眞) in the middle of the 8th century, but it was not widely accepted. In 805, a Japanese monk, Saicho (最澄) returned from China with new Tiantai texts and made the temple that he had built on Mt. Hiei (比叡山), the Enryakuji, a center for the study and practice of what became Japanese Tendai.
However, what Saicho had transmitted from China was not exclusively Tiantai, but also included Zen (禪), esoteric Mikkyo (密教), and Vinaya School (戒律) elements. The tendency to include a range of teachings became more marked in the doctrines of Saicho's successors, such as Ennin (圓仁) and Enchin (圓珍).
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