So Tiantai and related Chinese schools show a different conception of human destiny—part of this world, not removed from it.
In this sense, we can call Tiantai philosophy a “realist” philosophy; it is not about the mind as a separate world, but rather is grounded in the external world that we experience.
Indeed, in Tiantai the mind is at least as empty as the phenomenal world itself is. The mind does not really stand apart from other things (as in Consciousness-Only).