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Mount Tiantai

Mount Tiantai, in Zhejiang province, China, gives its name to the Tiantai school of Buddhism, whose de facto founder Zhiyi settled there in the sixth century. The Japanese monks Saichō (founder of Tendai) and later Eisai (founder of Japanese Rinzai Zen) both travelled to Mount Tiantai to study, carrying its teachings back to Japan.

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