Chinese Buddhist monk who founded the Tiantai school — a systematic synthesis of the entire Buddhist canon organized around the Lotus Sutra — developing the doctrine of the Three Truths and the calming-and-insight (zhiguan) meditation system.
Three Truths: emptiness, provisional existence, and the Middle Way are not three separate truths but a single simultaneous insight. One Mind contains Three Thousand World-Realms: each moment of mind contains the complete universe in all its multiplicity. Mohe Zhiguan: the most comprehensive Chinese Buddhist meditation manual.
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