Tiantai, Huayan, and Chan

[Vidyaraja]

This might be a somewhat technical question, but can anyone tell me what the influence of Zhiyi and the Tiantai school was on the Huayan school? In turn, can anyone tell me what the influence of both Tiantai and Huayan were on Chan? Or perhaps point me in the direction of some books that describe the answer to these questions in some detail?

[Huseng]

In the seventh century they developed simultaneously, but bear in mind that Huayan was centered in Chang'an amongst the aristocracy while Tiantai initially was provincial. Tiantai eventually in part moved into the city.

It would seem to me that Tiantai had less of an impact on Huayan because of the regional and perhaps class differences. It seems to me, as well, that Tiantai included strong yogic elements, whereas Huayan was much more scholastic and concerned with exegesis. Tiantai from the started placed equal emphasis on meditation and the study of doctrine.

Both schools of course influenced Chan. Zongmi the Huayan patriarch was in fact also counted as a Chan patriarch. However, in my reading of Fazang's works, I don't seem to recall him making many references to Zhiyi's works, if any.

See these works:

Tsung-Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism

Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-Mi's Yuan Jen Lun with a Modern Commentary

Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-Yen Buddhism

Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism

Your questions are rather huge, but I think these works would shed much light on them.

But keep in mind there is the Buddhism of the Tang period and then there is the Song and post-Song developments. Tiantai as a form of scholarship in China (rather than a community) exists even today, but that can't be said of Huayan minus the new group based out of Taiwan. Post-Tang a lot of Zhiyi's works were studied quite extensively as foundational works.

[Vidyaraja]

In the seventh century they developed simultaneously, but bear in mind that Huayan was centered in Chang'an amongst the aristocracy while Tiantai initially was provincial. Tiantai eventually in part moved into the city.

It would seem to me that Tiantai had less of an impact on Huayan because of the regional and perhaps class differences. It seems to me, as well, that Tiantai included strong yogic elements, whereas Huayan was much more scholastic and concerned with exegesis. Tiantai from the started placed equal emphasis on meditation and the study of doctrine.

Both schools of course influenced Chan. Zongmi the Huayan patriarch was in fact also counted as a Chan patriarch. However, in my reading of Fazang's works, I don't seem to recall him making many references to Zhiyi's works, if any.

See these works:

Tsung-Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism

Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity: An Annotated Translation of Tsung-Mi's Yuan Jen Lun with a Modern Commentary

Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-Yen Buddhism

Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism

Your questions are rather huge, but I think these works would shed much light on them.

But keep in mind there is the Buddhism of the Tang period and then there is the Song and post-Song developments. Tiantai as a form of scholarship in China (rather than a community) exists even today, but that can't be said of Huayan minus the new group based out of Taiwan. Post-Tang a lot of Zhiyi's works were studied quite extensively as foundational works.

Thank's, I realize my questions were a bit too large to be answered and was mostly hoping for some book recommendations, which you have done. I will certainly look into these.