Huayan
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The Huayan school of Buddhism is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty. The Huayan worldview is based primarily on the Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra as well as on the w
The Three Worthies of Huayan (Manjushri (left), Vairocana (center), and Samantabhadra (right)), a triad venerated in Huayan – Dazu Rock Carvings, Chongqing, China
Liao dynasty statue of the Eleven Headed Guanyin in Dule Temple in Tianjin, China.
Aerial view of Huayan Temple, Datong, built during the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
13th century Japanese print of Fazang, Todaiji, Nara, Japan
Indra's net
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Indra's net is a metaphor used to illustrate the Buddhist philosophical concepts of Śūnyatā, pratītyasamutpāda, and perfect interpenetration in East Asian Buddhism.
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…which is the entire universe, the Dharmadhatu). In the Huayan school, the teaching of interpenetration is depicted through various metaphors, such as Indra's net, a teaching which may have been influenced by the Gandhavyuha chapter's climax scene in Vairocana's Tower. Indra's net is an infinite cosmic net that…
A 3d rendering depicting the Indra's net metaphor
"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image." –Alan Watts