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This is a compilation of links, cites, and notes that will help us understand the Tiantai school. Please share.

Week 3 notes
Would anyone share their notes on this essential lecture? The professor reviewed Mayahana Buddhism and the Lotus Sutra.

Chan source book, chapter 24
Share your insights.

Seems to me like an attempt by Chih-i to synthesize metaphysical viewpoints of the Three Treatise school and the Consciousness only school. The former said dharmas are unreal. The latter said they are real. Chih-i said dharmas have being, but *provisional* being. This chapter does not seem to address anything related to the status of the bodhisattva or the Tiantai's view on government. That is my take.

Lotus Sutra
Which passages help?

Yahoo forum postings
"Clarifications concerning Tiantai" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poli113c/message/62

"Re: Tiantai and Legalism" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poli113c/message/96

"Re: Lotus Sutra, Bodhisattvas, and rulers" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poli113c/message/110

Useful Links
"Text of the Lotus Sutra, translated by Watson" http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/Buddhism/LotusSutra/