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    Even within Tendai exegesis, Annen's defense of grass-and... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→All beings, including non-sentient things like grasses, trees, and the land itself, hold the potential for awakening.

    Even within Tendai exegesis, Annen's defense of grass-and-tree buddhahood remained polemically contested and was not accepted as orthodox Mahāyāna doctrine.

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    • 1.Annen's position contradicted established Mahāyāna commentarial consensus on Buddha-nature's restriction to sentient beings.
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    • 2.Later Tendai schools largely abandoned grass-and-tree buddhahood, suggesting it lacked sufficient doctrinal grounding.
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    • 3.Even sympathetic Tendai scholars disputed Annen's specific arguments, indicating internal doctrinal instability.
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    • 1.Annen's theory developed logically from Tendai hongaku thought; rejecting it required explicit counter-arguments.
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    • 2.Some Tendai lineages preserved Annen's teachings, suggesting 'rejected' overstates the degree of consensus against it.
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    • 3.Calling heterodox positions 'contested' is expected; contestation doesn't prove they lacked serious philosophical merit.
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