Tiantai

Mahayana sutra

thumb|300px|Mount Tiantai by Wu Bin, 1605, Honolulu Museum of Art

Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra associated with the Threefold Lotus Sutra

Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra associated with the Threefold Lotus Sutra

3 divisions of time after Buddha's death: Former Day, lasting 1000 or 500 years, when the Dharma is upheld; Middle Day, lasting 1000 or 500 years, when a semblance of the Dharma remains; Latter Day, lasting 10000 years, when the Dharma declines

Mahayana doctrine unique to the Buddhist schools of Tiantai, Tendai, and Nichiren