According to Tendai, is karma an illusion and all there is

I think the conventional, mundane, truth in Tendai is the claim that karma is an illusion, for a number of reasons, such as the identity of the perfect mundane truth with the Madhyamaka ultimate truth. Zhiyi -- importantly -- quotes Nagarjuna's Middle Treatise: > All things that arise through causes and conditions, I explain as > emptiness, Again, this is a conventional designation. Again, this is > the meaning of the Middle Way. ---------- I believe that in Tendai the conventional truth is just a different means of asserting the ultimate truth, that each of the three truths are both one truth, and different > although three [phrases], they are one [in meaning]; although one, > this is three; [they are] not mutually exclusive. means of verbally falsifying reality > The three types are all empty because they are beyond verbalization > and conceptualization. The three types are all conventional because > they merely exist as [provisional] verbal [con- structs]. The three > types are all the Middle, because they are identical to the true > aspects [of reality] ---------- So I wondered if the Buddhist law of cause and effect all there is to Buddhism -- and Buddhahood and reality -- according to Tendai, yet also an illusion. > Things are neither merely nominal, nor merely real Ziporyn, 2012, 60 Inescapable, but unreal.