In the Vipassana movement traditions, the meditator silently notes the various walking sensations with phrases like "lifting", "moving", and "placing" (the foot).
In Vipassanā, or insight meditation, walking is used to deepen awareness of impermanence (anicca), suffering (dukkha), and non-self (anattā).
Walking meditation thus becomes a tool for observing the arising and passing of phenomena, leading to direct insight into the nature of reality.
In the Tiantai (Jp: Tendai) school, they follow the Móhē zhǐguān of patriarch Zhiyi as the main meditation guide.
[2] In the Pure Land school, there is a common practice of circumambulating a Buddha statue of Amitabha and reciting his name during nianfo retreats.