Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Mr Chen got up, consulted his watch, saw that it
was late, and then sat down again. He said: "We
should now add the following:"
I. Additional Talk
In Japan, there are two schools, the Eastern Tantra
(Shingon shu), and the eclectic school dealt with in the
last chapter, Tendai shu (Tian Tai), both of them using
Tantric methods for Enlightenment. The founder of the
latter came to China to learn the Tantric tradition but he
also studied Tian Tai and Chan. Elements of all three
schools he gathered into one (so that Tendai of Japan is
not the same as, though partly derived from, Tian Tai of
China). He did, however, lay more stress upon the Tian
Tai doctrines.
In the Eastern tradition of Tantra, garbhadhatu is a base
for vajradhatu but he inverted these, making
garbhadhatu highest. He also said that the samadhi of
Dharma-lotus is the most important, and that the
Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (with which it is associated)
belongs to the Tantras. This is wrong, for it does not
distinguish the esoteric from the exoteric doctrines. This
distinction has never been formulated in Tian Tai
though it may become clear after reading this book.
The Tian Tai in China established three philosophic
truths about each dharma and each could be viewed
from these three different viewpoints: the Real (sunyata),
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