East Asian MÄdhyamaka
Sanlun zong (Chinese三 论 宗, Pinyin sanlun Zong, W.-G. San -lun tsung ) was a Chinese form of the philosophical school of Madhyamaka Mahayana Buddhism. It was introduced under the reign of Emperor Jin Andis in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty of the Chinese Empire. The name of the school goes back to their canonical writings, the so-called three discussions (三 论, sanlun, San -lun ), the basic texts of the Indian Madhyamaka. These are the Madhyamaka - sastra (中 论, Zhonglun, Chung -lun ) and the Dvādaśanikāya - Sastra (十二 门 论, Shier mén Lun, Shih -erh -wen lun ) of Nagarjuna and the Sata - sastra (百 论, Bǎi Lun Lun Pai ) of Nagarjuna students Aryadeva.
An important early proponent of sanlun zong was the monk Jizang ( 549-623 ;吉 蔵/吉藏, Jízàng, Chi - tsang ), which is generally regarded as its real founder and author of the major font sanlun Xuanyi (三 论 玄 义, sanlun Xuanyi, San -lun hsuan -i, Profound meaning of the three discussions ') was. Jizang refers in his interpretation of the sanlun zong retroactively - affirmatively to the Chinese monk Sengzhao ( 378-413 ;僧肇, Sengzhao, Seng -chao ), an early theorist of the three discussions.
After the death Jizangs and in the wake of the emergence of other, also highly oriented to the Madhyamaka, Chinese schools of Buddhism, such as the Tiantai zong and the Huayan in the 6th and 7th centuries, the sanlun zong lost more and more active representatives.
As Samnon jong ( 삼론종 ), the school was housed in the three kingdoms of Korea and finally in the 7th century as Sanron shū to Japan.