Work
Mohe Zhiguan
Overview
The Mohe Zhiguan (T. 1911), or the Larger Treatise on Cessation and Contemplation (Chinese: 摩訶止観; pinyin: Móhē Zhǐguān; Japanese pronunciation: Makashikan) is a major Buddhist doctrinal treatise based on lectures given by the Chinese Tiantai patriarch Zhiyi (538–597 CE) in 594. These lectures were compiled and edited by Zhiyi´s disciple Guanding (561-632) into seven chapters in ten fascicles.
The voluminous Mohe Zhiguan 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).
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Philosophers who discussed Mohe Zhiguan
Related ideas
- Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
- Two truths doctrine
- Prajnaparamita
- Samadhi
- Buddhist meditation
- Kleshas (Buddhism)
- Skandha
- Pure Land Buddhism
- Śūnyatā
- View (Buddhism)
- Nagarjuna
- Five precepts
- Abhidharma
- Tiantai
- Mahayana sutras
- Nianfo
- Zen
- Zhiyi
- Chan Buddhism
- Bodhisattva
- Buddhists
- Buddhist philosophy
- Madhyamaka
- Upaya
Place in the tradition
Part of Zen.