Huayan
Proper noun
Meaning
Huayan
A Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907).
Synonym: Kegon
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Hanh's presentation of the prajnaparamita in terms of "interbeing" has doctrinal antecedents in the Huayan school of thought, McMahan, David L. The Making of Buddhist Modernism.
Furthermore, according to Huayan thought, each mind creates its own world "according to their mental patterns", and "these worlds are infinite in kind" and constantly arising and passing away.
However, in Huayan, mind is not real either, but also empty.
Fazang (Fa-tsang, 643–712 C.E.) is one of the most important Huayan thinkers, wrote 'Essay on the Golden Lion' and 'Treatise on the Five Teachings', which contain other metaphors for the interpenetration of reality.
Huayan A 3D rendering of Indra's net main The Huayan developed the doctrine of "interpenetration" or "coalescence" (Wylie: zung-'jug; Sanskrit: yuganaddha), Neville, Robert C. (1987).
Huayan philosophy also had an influence on Chan.