WHO IS WHO

T'IEN-T'AI, MIAO-LO AND DENGYO

Three men are credited for spreading the LOTUS SUTRA throughout East Asia: T'ien-T'ai, Mia-lo and Dengyo.

T'ien-T'ai founded the Chinese Buddhist school that upheld the Lotus Sutra as Shakyamuni's highest teaching by classifying all of the Buddhist sutras. Mia-lo, revered as a restorer of the T'ien-T'ai school, wrote invaluable commentaries. Dengyo followed in the T'ien-T'ai tradition in Japan and laid the groundwork for Nichiren's emergence in the thirteenth century.