Dharma Wheel

Tendai.or.jp and tendai.org are two great places to get started as they provide a straightforward and fairly broad approach to how Tendai fits in the broader picture of Mahayana Buddhism. Surprisingly, the wikipedia page isn't half bad either! Lots of recommendations for further reading may be found...

Over the next few years I will be translating the Kenkairon, one of Saicho's major works. I recently signed a contract with the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism (Bukkyo dendo kyokai: http://www.bdkamerica.org/bdk-tripitaka-digital-downloads) As that work it progresses, I will post relevant pass...

These are exciting developments indeed! Revs. Junsen and Jiko are absolutely fantastic.

How delightful! Thank you for sharing! I hope to make the trek to Tiantaishan at some point in my life

You'll be happy to know I told Paul Swanson about this post. He thought it was pretty cool.

Best,

Aaron

I'm really interested in this topic these days. I wrote my dissertation on Dohan (https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/111511), and recently an article in Japanese synthesizing and developing some of the ideas introduced in the dissertation (https://rcwbc.ryukoku.ac.jp/publications/data/j-w...

In some sense, the ritual structure, a kind of "guest/host" enactment, goes back to ancient India and is fairly common in South and East Asian religious traditions. You'd have to look into the specific ritual lineage that he trained in for more detailed information- could be Heian, could be Edo.... ...