13 Facts About Huayan

Huayan or Flower Garland school of Buddhism is a tradition of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy that first flourished in China during the Tang dynasty.

The Huayan worldview is based primarily on the Avatamsaka Sutra .

Huayan School is known as Hwaeom in Korea, Kegon in Japan and Hoa Nghiem in Vietnam.

Five monks later honored as Huayan patriarchs were erudite scholar-practitioners who connected Buddhism with Chinese traditional culture closely, creating a Buddhist historical trend in developing multiple facets while the tradition's essence remained the same.

Several new Huayan-centred Buddhist organizations have been established since the latter half of the 20th century.

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In Mainland China, Huayan teachings began to be more widely re-propagated after the end of the Cultural Revolution.

An important doctrine that the Huayan school drew from this sutra is the idea that all levels of reality are interrelated and interpenetrated, the idea that "inside everything is everything else".

Huayan thought is mainly focused on explaining the nature of the Dharmadhatu, the world as it is ultimately, from the point of view of a fully awakened being.

Key doctrine of Huayan is the mutual containment and interpenetration of all phenomena or "perfect interfusion" .

Huayan patriarchs used various metaphors to express this, such as Indra's net, a hall of mirrors and the world text.

Huayan makes extensive use of paradox in argument and literary imagery.

Doctrines of the Huayan school ended up having profound impact on the philosophical attitudes of East Asian Buddhism.

Guifeng Zongmi, the Fifth Patriarch of the Huayan school, occupies a prominent position in the history of Chan.