The Secular Trend Of Zhiyi's Tiantai Sect

Zhiyi was the real founder of the Tiantai Buddhist Sect for the themes of "all maifestations of nature in one thought", "three views in one mind" and "three truths mixing together", which are characteristic of the Buddhist doctrine of the Tiantai Sect, were developed by him.Four parts, including "three thruths mixing together, Buddhanature, Samathavipa Syana, the mixture of Buddhism and Confucianism, Judgment of Teaching Moral, The attituade of Taoism.Based oll the Mahayana Buddhism position, Tiantai Zhiyi put forward a kind and evil being bona thought which resulted a depth discussion.He divided "evil" into the evil priori to people§minds and the evil which obstacles on the spiritual freedom, and provided practical ways to transform.Zhiyi admitted the Confucianism with the method of "the three-in-one", which is great creation and leads to the mixture of Buddhism and Confucianism.Thus, we may say that the Confucianism's step into Tiantai Sect is the phenomenon interchange of Confucianism and Buddhism.The theory of the three truths "orgplete and immediate" is a vital part of Zhiyi's thoughts on"orgplete and immediate. "In content.it refers to the universal, particular, and middle, the three truths, and their relationships are equal, dependent, and mutually inclusive; in attribution, it falls into the category of the truth concept of Buddhism, showing the real content of various theories; In its connection with other theories of Tiantai Sect, three truths and three orgmas are three correlative concepts at the same level; In method, the key to proving the three truths is to Justify the truth of the world:people would see the real face of the world as the Buddha has seen.Tiantai Sect is the earliest Buddhist sect of national nature in the history of Chinese Buddhism.In the 2000 years'development of Chinese Buddhism, it becomes the summit of Buddhism in the Han territory with its long history, perfect ideology, prudent account and complete performance.Tiantai culture is an indivisible part of Chinese traditional culture.