According to the view of the Lotus Sutra that “origin and traces” are not opposites but unity, the Sui dynasty Tiantai monk Zhiyi developed his own concept of text. Zhiyi thought Buddhist Sutras were not only expressed through the historical Buddha Sakyamuni and his pupils recording his sermons. Any existing thing based on depended origination must also be viewed as a manifestation of what is taught by the Sutras; consequently any existing thing can become a Buddhist Sutra causing sentient beings to acquire enlightenment. Everything, which has its own special pattern of expression, becomes the “text of traces”, whereas the totality of existing things based on depended origination must be viewed as its “original-text”. In order to understand the “original-text”, one must know how to read the “text of traces” and simultaneously know how to abandon its limits, which is based on the method of reading and understanding Buddhist Sutras. The method of reading is the “one-mindedness of the threefold contemplation”. One who reads the “text of traces” due to this method contemplates the “threefold truth” of any object, that is realizing simultaneous identity of emptiness, conventionality, and the middle of any object on which this contemplation focuses. Based on this contemplation, reading and understanding the text of Buddhist Sutras is supposed to transform itself into the cultivation of liberation and salvation.