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__Basic Info.__
Tendai buddhism has Chinese antecedents (Chinese Buddhism). It was developed in China and imported directly into Japan. This Buddhism emphasizes the possibility of attaining enlightenment in this very body through the esoteric techniques (ex. visualization meditation or changing of mantras and ritual gestures). The main text is the Lotus Sutra, including practices like Zen meditation and Pure Land devotional practices. This sect of Buddhism emphasizes monastic life, and playing major role in the state ritual.

__**Symbols:**__
Tendai Buddhism employ the traditional forms of indian derived Buddhist symbol in art, architecture, priestly vestments and et cetera. There are numerous divinities and artistic motifs of Pure Land and the Lotus Sutra.

__**Adherents and Monastries:**__
There are approximately 9,300 temples and other sites for religious practices, 15,300 clergy members and 4,665,000 adherents.

Of these, temple Enryakuji, located on Mt. Hiei, Japan is the first and most significant.

__**Beliefs and Practices**__
-Tendai Buddhism is an amalgation, which combines other Buddhist schools such as Vinaya, Shingon, Zen, and Shinto to form one organization or structure. Mainly focusing on the teaching of Lotus Sutra. Tendai Buddhism strictly follows the ethics and principles of the Lotus Sutra, which is the way to earning salvation, or in other words, attaining 'buddhahood' (becoming enlightened). This certain school sees itself as the most significant and the true teachings of Buddha, as it holds beliefs that are quite diverse from that of the rest. For example, it portrays Buddha a cosmic or extraterrestrial being. Buddha “a transcendent eternal being, preaching to myriad arhats, gods, bodhisattvas, and other figures using all sorts of sermons, lectures, imaginative parables, and miracles” (Religion Facts)



__**Lotus Sutra**__
The Lotus Sutra, or “Lotus of the Good Law,” is a Buddhist text which is regarded as the exemplary by the Japanese Tendai sect. Within its content, it informs the followers the way Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha, and how he became a divine and eternal Buddha, who attained “enlightenment” many aeons ago. The sutra’s 28 chapters also notifies believers of charms and mantras, or sacred chants.

The three ways to salvation: Srakakayana (“Way of the Disciples”) the way of those who seek to become an Arhat. Pratyeka-buddhayana - the way of those to seek to attain salvation for themselves alone. Bodhisattvayana ("way of the bodhisattvas") - the way of those who postpone their own enlightenment to help others achieve it.



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