Explore: Tendai Priests

Tendai (天台宗, Tendai-shū), also known as the Tendai Dharma Flower School (天台法華宗, Tendai hokke shū, sometimes just Hokkeshū), is a Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition

only disciple who was actually older than Nichiren himself. He was a Tendai priest in his youth, and after Nichiren's death he continued to claim that

practice performed by Tendai Buddhist monks. The practice involves repeatedly walking a route on Mount Hiei, the location of the Tendai school headquarters

communities. He is an initiated Taoist priest of the Zhengyi school as well as an ordained Tendai Buddhist priest. His first ordination, however, was as

Kannon), enshrines an image of Daikokuten claimed to be the work of the Tendai priest Ennin, known as the 'Asahi Kaiun Daikokuten' (朝日開運大黒天) – so named because

title of preceptor or high priest in Tendai or Kegon Buddhism and wajō as an honorific title of preceptor or high priest in Shingon, Hossō, Ritsu, or

happenings of many origins, including monks, peasantry, and nobility. The Tendai priest Keisei wrote Kankyo no Tomo in 1222. Japanese folktales Setsuwa (in

ordained practitioner of esoteric Tendai Mikkyō Buddhism. He apprenticed under Dr. Clark Jikai Choffy, an ordained Tendai priest and personal disciple of Jion

hermitage in the hills around Kamakura. From there he converted several Tendai priests, directly ordained others, and attracted lay disciples who were drawn

JR line passing along the foot of the mountains. In every 26 March, Tendai priests hold a memorial service for casualties of shipwreck accidents. The Hira