Paul Groner is a scholar of Japanese Buddhism, and this University of Hawaii Press book is his standard academic study of Saicho, the founder of the Japanese Tendai school, and of the school's early establishment and doctrine, including its central teaching of the One Vehicle, Ekayana, and the Three Truths. Its strength is close engagement with the Japanese and Chinese textual sources for Saicho's life and thought, situating Tendai's founding doctrine within the wider East Asian Buddhist debates it was responding to. Its limit is that it is a focused study of Saicho and Tendai's own founding synthesis specifically, so a claim about esoteric Buddhism or Vajrayana traditions more broadly, outside Tendai's own particular development of them, needs a source addressing those separate traditions rather than being drawn from this study alone.
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Paul Groner's standard scholarly study of Saicho and his founding of the Japanese Tendai school of Buddhism; a focused academic history of Tendai's founder, not a general source on esoteric Buddhism or Vajrayana traditions outside Tendai's own synthesis. NotesPaul Groner's standard scholarly study of Saicho and his founding of the Japanese Tendai school of Buddhism. Use for established historical facts about Saicho's life and Tendai's founding doctrine such as the One Vehicle (Ekayana) and the Three Truths; a focused academic history of Tendai's founder, not a general source on esoteric Buddhism or Vajrayana traditions outside Tendai's own synthesis.
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AuthorPaul Groner
PublisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
Publication Year1984
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Saicho directly: "book is his standard academic study of Saicho, the founder of the Japanese Tendai school, and of the school's early establishment and doctrine, including its central teaching of the One Vehicle..."
This source names Tendai directly: "of Saicho, the founder of the Japanese Tendai school, and of the school's early establishment and doctrine, including its central teaching of the One Vehicle, Ekayana, and the Three Truths."
Claims Backed By This Source (72 claims)
This source backs 72 claims across the atlas. As facts: 47 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds, 5 connected. Plus 15 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Articles, 27 claims: 17 well-attested, 5 connected, 5 general references.
- Beliefs & Restrictions, 21 claims: 17 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Doctrines, 6 claims: 3 holds, 3 general references.
- Denominations, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Figures, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Historical Periods, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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