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Zhiyior Chih-i(born 538, Hunan province, China—died 597, Mount Tiantai, Zhejiang province) Chinese Buddhist monk who founded the eclectic Tiantai sect. Orphaned at age 17, he studied with the Buddhist master Huisi for seven years. He was associated with the imperial governments of the Chen dynasty in southern China and the Sui dynasty, which reunified China. He reconciled the various strains of Buddhism by regarding all Buddhist doctrines as true and present in the mind of the enlightened Buddha, who unfolded his teachings in periods to accommodate his listeners' capacities. He considered the Lotus Sutra the highest teaching and helped establish it as the most popular scripture in East Asia. |
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They performed traditional Chinese songs and dances and one visiting student, Zhiyi Ren, played a Chinese stringed instrument called a pipa. The first examines premodern China through a survey of premodern literary texts, followed by a detailed discussion of Pu Songling's Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio). Bedard retells twenty-three stories out of hundreds gathered by seventeenth-century Shandong scholar Pu Songling and commonly titled Liaozhai zhiyi, or "The Studio of Leisure's Records of the Strange. |
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