A Buddhist monk in Japan has begun a 12-year period of solitary retreat as he undertakes to care for the tomb of the founder of Tendai Buddhism.
The conference will host leading scholars, practitioners, and experts from around the world to bring a Buddhist perspective to bear on Artificial Intelligence, a new technology that is rapidly changing everything around us
Who will we encounter when we are reborn in Amitabha’s Buddha-land? Alan Kwan takes a look at what kinds of beings dwell there
An updated reading of a central Tiantai text
Sublime expressions of the sacred
The ritual as pinnacle of Chinese Buddhism’s unique…
How Tiantai master Zhiyi combined meditative practices with Chinese medicine and medical thought
In my previous articles in this trilogy, I explained the philosophy of Tiantai Buddhism and why it appeals to me. Unlike the philosophically rich Huayan,
On skillful means in the Chinese Tiantai tradition
I have always been fascinated by the radical message of Tiantai (see below), its versatility in Chinese thought, and its potential for intellectual cross-pollination with
Whenever I teach Japanese Buddhism, whether in the Americas, Europe, or East Asia, I frequently run into the same assumption among students that Buddhists, for
When Chan Buddhist practices were first transmitted to China, they were the same as those practiced in India. Over time, however, the contemplative practices (禪觀)
