That is the idea of the main emptiness which was developed by the Chinese school,
text oriented school San Lun zong.
Just an example, the majority of Chinese schools are also based on the different
kind of the transformation and different varieties of the Madhyamaka ideas.
And also based on different texts and scriptures.
If we speak about the pure Chinese tradition, we can name several Chinese
schools, some of them rised during the Tong and Song dynasty.
Some of them die or perished very early, but anyway they were cross connected.
All these schools effected to the future schools of Chinese Buddhism.
And first of all, they effected to the development of the Chan or
Zen tradition in China.
Some schools were cross connected to the Indian tradition into the Indian
philosophy.
For example, this so called the Weishizong, the Consciousness-Only school.
Another one maybe one of the most important or
at least the most famous school of Chinese Buddhism is called Tiantai school or
the Heavenly Terrace or Heavenly Platform, and we'll speak about that later.
Another school is called the Jingtu zong.
Jingtu zong which is Pure Land school.
Jingtu or Pure Land it means the Buddhist Heaven.
And after some meditation, after some purification,
I can find myself in the Pure Land, so it means in the Buddhist heaven.
Another school, one of the most important of the early Chinese Buddhists is
called the Huayang school, the school of Garland.
And we will speak about it later, so these several schools became
a first Chinese schools that had some roots in Indian tradition.
But at the same time the exception the old traditional meditation,
the old teaching, the old texts.
And first of all teachers, so
all the schools were represented by Chinese teachers.
One of the most important as fas as I said was the Taintai school.
Taintai school existed in China, it's also flourished in Japan.
The name of school could be translated as a heavenly platform or platform of heaven.
One explanation of the name of this school is that the founder of this school was for
some period of time, spend in the Tiantai Mountains,
that's the explanation of the name of the school.
But the school flourished between the 4th patriarch.
Zhiyi which lived in the 6th century.
Zhiyi established its own meditation tradition and the school was based on
the meditation practice which was already a part of Buddhist tradition, but
not the main part.
Zhiyi decided to make meditation as the main every day
practice of all Buddhists, of ll fours of its tradition.
Tiantai developed a very, very rich theory about
Buddhism and about the Buddhist point of view.
First of all Zhiyi told that in one thought,
in one idea we can find everything.
So it means that I can embrace in one idea,
all things, all ideas of this world.
It means that only one idea and
the multiplicity of this world are just the same, that's the first idea.