Tiantai Sect is the earliest Buddhist sect of national nature in the history of Chinese Buddhism. In the 2000 years’ development of Chinese Buddhism, it becomes the summit of Buddhism in the Han territory with its long history, perfect ideology, prudent account and complete performance. Tiantai culture is an indivisible part of Chinese traditional culture. Tiantai aesthetics, part of Tiantai culture, becomes part of Chinese traditional aesthetics (life aesthetics) for its content of life aesthetics. In its reflection of life philosophy, it stresses inquiry into man’s soul and takes the inquiry as the end-result, so as to embody the property of life aesthetics with the form of parapsychic aesthetics.
