In the T'ien T'ai School, the Lotus Sutra is its essential tenet. The Ven. Hiu Wan was the student of the Ven. Tan Shi in the T'ien T'ai School. She not only studied up on the Lotus Sutra but also elucidated the Lotus Sutra's teaching to her students. She spreaded her ideal education-Enlightment Education-to the world, and often referred the Lotus Sutra verses in her educational works to fit in with the modern living. For example, she used the implication of the lotus simultaneous blooming and bearing fruit to encourage adolescence developing a life of wisdom and enhancing abundant meaning of life. This thesis is going to discuss the Ven. Hiu Wan's wise guidance and applications of the Lotus Sutra when she preached. It also illustrates how she developed her enlightment and wisdom through the Lotus Sutra, and how she acknowledged the self-enlightened profound meaning in buddhist mission. In order to enlighten others, she aroused a vow to enlighten others by utlizing the Lotus Sutra. This thesis is divided into two parts, the Ven. Hiu Wan's self-enligtment and her wise enlightening others. In her self-enlightment, it describes the affinities between her and her master, the process of her examination for the Lotus Sutra, and how she was awaked by the profound meaning of the Lotus Sutra. Secondly, to enlighten others, it explains since she became a nun how she had applied the Lotus Sutra to teach students in her educational career. In addition, her art achievements-Paintings Illustrating Sutras and Ch'an Paintings-also revealed her modern transmissions from the Lotus Sutra. It also appreciates the Ven. Hiu Wan's poems and her poetic praising to the Lotus Sutra In the end of this thesis, it summarizes and sums up the content.
