智顗

Zhiyi, founder of the Tiantai school, also known as [lang id =1028]智者 and [lang id =1028]天台 ([lang id =1028]天台大師); his surname was [lang id =1028]陳 Chen; his [lang id =1028]字 was [lang id =1028]德安, De-an; born about A. D. 538, he died in 597 at 60 years of age. He was a native of [lang id =1028]頴川 Ying-chuan in Anhui, became a neophyte at 7, was fully ordained at 20. At first a follower of [lang id =1028]慧思, Huisi, in 575 he went to the Tiantai mountain in Chekiang, where he founded his famous school on the <Lotus Sūtra> as containing the complete gospel of the Buddha.

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智者大師。 他在天台山創立天台宗， 世稱天台大師。