Mohe Zhiguan

The Móhē zhǐguān (Chinese: 摩訶止観; pinyin: Móhē Zhǐguān; Japanese pronunciation: Makashikan; Sanskrit: Mahāśamathavipaśyanā) is a major Buddhist doctrinal treatise based on lectures given by the Chinese Tiantai patriarch Zhiyi (538–597 CE) in 594.[1] These lectures were compiled and edited by Zhiyi´s disciple Guanding (561-632) into seven chapters in ten fascicles.[2][3]

The voluminous Móhē zhǐguān is a comprehensive Buddhist doctrinal summa that discusses meditation and various key Buddhist doctrines which were very influential in the development of Buddhist meditation and Buddhist philosophy in China. It is one of the central texts of Tiantai (and Japanese Tendai).[4]

  1. ^ Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 546. ISBN 9780691157863.
  2. ^ Penkover, Linda (1979), "In the Beginning ... Guanding and the Creation of Early Tiantai", Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 23 (2): 245–296
  3. ^ Fa Qing,The Śamatha and Vipaśyanā in Tian Tai, Poh Ming Tse Symposium 2013: One Master Three Meditative Traditions. Singapore, August 30, 2013; pp.30-47
  4. ^ PAUL L. SWANSON. Understanding Chih-i: Through a glass, darkly?

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