Tendai

1. A Mahayana Buddhist tradition with esoteric elements, officially established in Japan in 806 by the monk Saichō.

plural Tendais

1. A unisex given name from Shona.

   She herself asked that the students just call her by her first name, Tendai.

   1994, “What's her name?: Forms of address in Shona”, in Mary Bucholtz, director, Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Women and Language Conference, April 8, 9, and 10, 1994, Berkeley Women and Language Group, University of California, page 37

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   Matida's three sons, Tendai, Ziteya and Chimbadzwe heard that their lives were in danger so they disappeared with their sister Chikadzi to Tandi's chiefdom under Makoni.

   1977, Michael Gelfand, The Spiritual Beliefs of the Shona: A Study Based on Field Work Among the East-Central Shona, Mambo Press, page 17

   Tendai was seven years old. He lived in a village in the southern African country of Zimbabwe. His home was in a little settlement of neat mud and thatch huts. Tendai’s mother, father, elder brothers and sisters worked in the fields and the canning factory nearby.

   1997, Lakshmi Mukundan, African tales from Tendai's grandmother