Rìběn de Tiāntáizōng yóu Zuì chéng cóngzhōng guó chuánrù.
Japan's Tendai school was brought from China by the monk Saichō.
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history
Founded by 智顗 (Zhiyi, 538-597) on Tiantai Mountain 天台山 in Zhejiang. It was the first major fully-Sinicized school of Buddhism, organized around the Lotus Sutra and a doctrine of 'three truths in one mind' (三谛圆融). In Japan it was transmitted by Saichō in 805 as the Tendai school, parent tradition of later Nichiren and Pure Land sects.
mistakes
When 天台 names this school or the Zhejiang mountain, 台 is often read tāi (not tái as in 台湾 'Taiwan'). The dictionary reading is 'Tiāntái-zōng,' but you will hear scholars and monks say 'Tiāntāi.'
