Abstract
This paper takes up the relation and negotiation between Zhanran's “tathagatagarbha-move along” thought and Fazang's Qixinlun yiji.
The Tientai School was built on “The true form of all things as they are, ” but it began to approach Huayen tathagatagarbha thought from the middle of the Tang dynasty. I tried to prove that the Tientai School's central theory was based on “The union of two phenomena, ” rather than tathagatagarbha thought by comparing the Zhanran's “tathagatagarbha-move along” thought with Fazang's tathagatagarbha thought in his Qixinlun yiji. The most important part in Zhanran's thought is that it always follows the principle that “Worldly desires are not different from Bodhi, life-and-death or transmigration is also not different from nirvana.” Zhanran's thought is different from Fazang's “tathagatagarbha-move along” thought that has a dynamic meaning for the arising of all phenomena accordingly.
My conclusion is that Zhanran's “tathagatagarbha-move along” thought is not really “move along” because it didn't act according to the reality of dependent origination.
