# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zhiyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:04:26.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zhiyi"
name: "Zhiyi"
slug: "zhiyi"
description: "Zhiyi also called Tiantai Dashi (天台大師) and Zhizhe, was a Chinese Buddhist monk, philosopher, meditation teacher, and exegete. He is considered to be the founder of the Tiantai Buddhist tradition, as well as its fourth patriarch. Śramaṇa Zhiyi is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the development of East Asian Buddhist thought and practice. As the first major Chinese Buddhist thinker to construct a comprehensive religious system based primarily on Chinese interpretations, Zhiyi played a crucial role in synthesizing various strands of Mahayana Buddhism into a unique coherent framework. According to David W. Chappell, Zhiyi \"has been ranked with Thomas Aquinas and al-Ghazali as one of the great systematizers of religious thought and practice in world history.\""
tagline: "Chinese Buddhist monk and founder of Tiantai tradition (538–597)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sramana_Zhiyi.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "538"
deathDate: "597"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.14
  momentum:             0.914285714285714
  historical:           20.972908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "تشي يي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8C%E2%80%99-i"
    title: "Č’-i"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi_Yi"
    title: "Zhi Yi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cse-ji"
    title: "Cse-ji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zh%C3%ACy%C7%90"
    title: "Zhìyǐ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%99%BA%E9%A1%97"
    title: "智顗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "지의"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A7%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B8"
    title: "Чжии"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%BEiji"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiyi"
    title: "Zhiyi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump