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Also known as Flower Garland School

The Huayan school of Buddhism (, Wade–Giles: Hua-Yen, "Flower Garland," from the Sanskrit "Avataṃsaka") is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907). The Huayan worldview is based primarily on the Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra (, Flower Garland Sūtra) as well as on the works of Huayan patriarchs, like Zhiyan (602–668), Fazang (643–712), Chengguan (738–839), Zongmi (780–841) and Li Tongxuan (635–730).

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The Three Worthies of Huayan (Manjushri (left), Vairocana (center), and Samantabhadra (right)), a triad venerated in Huayan – Dazu Rock Carvings, Chongqing, China
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華嚴宗
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华严宗
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Huáyán zōng
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Hua-yen tsung
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Hua-ngiam tsong
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華厳宗
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けごん しゅう
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Kegon-shū
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華嚴宗
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화엄종
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Hwaeomjong
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Hwaŏmjong
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Hoa Nghiêm tông
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華嚴宗
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Avataṃsaka

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41 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Origins of the Chinese ''Avataṃsaka'' tradition
  • Tang dynasty patriarchs
  • Liao and Xia developments
  • Song revival
  • Ming and Qing dynasties
  • Korean Hwaeom
  • Japanese Kegon
  • Modern Era
  • Influence
  • On Chan
  • Texts
  • ''Huayan sūtra''
  • Other key scriptures
  • Commentaries and treatises
  • Doctrine
  • Interpenetration
  • Threefold Discernment of the Dharmadhatu
  • The six characteristics
  • Ten mysterious gates
  • Implications of perfect interfusion
  • Time and causality
  • Ultimate principle
  • Nature origination
  • Shifting emphasis from phenomena to principle
  • The Cosmic Buddha Vairocana
  • Understanding of the trisvabhāva
  • Differences with classical Yogācāra
  • Classification of Buddhist teachings
  • Practice
  • Textual practices
  • Contemplation of Buddhas and bodhisattvas
  • Visualization meditations
  • Meditation and the fourfold Dharmadhatu
  • Esoteric practices
  • The path and sudden awakening
  • Notes
  • References
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

The Huayan school of Buddhism (, Wade–Giles: Hua-Yen, "Flower Garland," from the Sanskrit "Avataṃsaka") is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty (618–907). The Huayan worldview is based primarily on the Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra (, Flower Garland Sūtra) as well as on the works of Huayan patriarchs, like Zhiyan (602–668), Fazang (643–712), Chengguan (738–839), Zongmi (780–841) and Li Tongxuan (635–730).

Another name for this tradition is the Xianshou school (賢首, Xianshou being another name for patriarch Fazang).'''' The Huayan School is known as Hwaeom in Korea, Kegon in Japan and Hoa Nghiêm in Vietnam.

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