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Saicho (767-822), the founder of the Tendai School, is likely one of the great masters of Japanese Buddhism. This edition, which incorporates a new preface by the creator, makes to be had again a classic work in this essential figure’s life and accomplishments. Groner’s study specializes in Saicho’s founding of the nice monastic center on Mount Hiei, the leading religious institution of medieval Japan, and his radical move to adopt for purposes of ordination the Mahayana bodhisattva precepts–a decision that had a long way-reaching consequences for the way forward for Japanese Buddhist ethical thought, monastic training and organization, lay-clerical relations, philosophical developments, and Buddhism-state relations.