Saicho Quotes

Saicho, posthumously known as Dengyo Daishi, was a Japanese Buddhist monk and the founder of the Tendai school in Japan. After studies in China at the great Tiantai monastery on Mount Tiantai, he returned to establish a comprehensive monastic and educational complex on Mount Hiei outside Kyoto, which would become for centuries the leading center of Japanese Buddhist learning. The quotes below are attributed to Saicho, organized by topic.