Käytetty hyväkuntoinen kirja. Esilehteen kirjoitettu edellisten omistajien merkintöjä. Muuten siistissä kunnossa.

The Outline of the Tiantai Fourfold Teachings takes a special position in our selections from Korean Buddhism in that it is known not so much for its influence on Korean thought or for being an example of a distinctive “Korean” way of thinking, but it known, more than anything for its broad influence on the East Asian Buddhist tradition as a whole.

Cheontae Buddhism, well-known by its Chinese and Japanese names of Tiantai and Tendai, is one of the most influential forms of Buddhism in East Asian Buddhist history. Formed in China during the sixth and seventh centuries, Tiantai received its greatest single influence from the Chinese scholar-monk Zhiyi 智顗. 1 Zhiyi was the most thorough among the early Chinese doctrinal masters who sought to create a way of sorting out the confusing morass of Buddhist teachings that had been imported from India and Central Asia. He did this by creating a complex system for categorizing the various types of content, the methods of instruction, and the sequential development of these methods, culminating in what was regarded as the most perfected form of Buddhist teachings.