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T'ien T'ai

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T'ien T'ai

Branch of Chinese Buddhism founded by Hui Ssu (515-577) and based on the Lotus Sūtra, commentaries on the sūtra, and Hui Ssu's own teachings. T'ien T'ai teaches the Threefold Truth which states that the dharma (the essence of a thing) is nothingness because it has no self or real being, that self only seems to exist because of certain causes and conditions, and that it is in an intermediate state of both nothingness (void) and yet also existing. The Japanese school of T'ien T'ai is Tendai.
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