California Tendai Buddhists

About

We are a Buddhist temple community practicing the teachings Tendai Buddhism on Cobb Mountain in Lake County, California. Tendai Buddhism blends together Indian and Chinese philosophical and religious ideas. Drawing upon the thought of the Indian Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250 CE) and the concept of shunyata, Tendai Buddhism was founded by Zhiyi (538-597 CE), a Chinese scholar monk and meditator who lived in the Tiantai mountains in China, and transmitted to Japan by a monk named Saichō (767-822 CE), who founded Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei, Japan.Tendai Buddhism teaches a balanced and universalist to the study and practice of Buddhism.