Abstract

Tiantai Zhiyi is the actual founder, because he not only made ​​a single mark into a unique series of theoretical propositions, such as Yiniansanqian, bent three views, Sandi harmony, etc., and build a complete theoretical system and apostasy thinking. This set of theories as Zhiyi proficient in the Tiantai Mountain, Tiantai it said. Also, because Tiantai Bong "Lotus Sutra" is dealt with by , Tendai Hokke so they were not called. The points can be said that the views of the academic conclusion. Now, many on the mainland, some scholars have all kinds of misconceptions on these conclusions: Since the Tiantai Zhiyi is the founder, that "Tiantai," "five eight taught" and so are his proposed establishment of Tendai's legal system also he is; since Tiantai the "Lotus Sutra" as the cases have been, so simply "Lotus Sutra" thinking the same as Tendai thought. The fundamental reason for this misconception is that the researchers did not proceed from the historical data, but others inherited research papers, so errors caused by human error also. Here, this approach, is to be Zhiyi study, when the roof is created when criticized: the concept of field dwarfs those who, with others near the person laughing and crying. In this paper, three issues mentioned above, the historical data based, will discuss his views. Zhi Yi was the actual founder of the Tian Tai Sect, since he not only proposed a series of distinctive theoretical propositions but also constructed an integrated theoretical framework along with judgmental thoughts. Zhi Yi's theory reached its bloom in Mount Tian Tai and was therefore known as the Tian Tai Sect. Beside, the Tian Tai Sect was also called the Fa Hua Sect since it respected Fa Hua Jing as the classic of the sect. All these are the established views of the academic circle. Nowadays, quite a few scholars from the mainland have misunderstandings about the fore-mentioned conclusions. They attributed concepts like the "Tian Tai Sect," "Five Times and Eight Teachings" along with the construction of the tradition of the Tian Tai Sect to Zhi Yi, purely because he was the founder of the sect. They also identified the thoughts in Fa Hua Jing with the thoughts of the Tian Tai Sect simply due to the fact that the Tian Tai Sect respected Fa Hua Jing as their classic. The fundamental cause of such misunderstandings is that none of these researchers began with historical sources; instead they just succeeded others' researches. Such a methodology happened to justify the criticism Zhi Yi made when he founded the style of the Tian Tai Sect: These people are just like dwarfs, being mocked by others as they like it