Titel
The Flower Ornament Scripture / A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra
Schrijver
Cleary, Thomas
Taal
Engels
ISBN
9780877739401
Uitgever
Shambhala Publications Inc
Prijs
€ 95,00(Excl. verzendkosten)
Bijzonderheden
1993, 1656pp, Gebonden, in uitstekende staat.
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The Flower Garland Sutra is most known for the notion of
the mutual interpenetration of all phenomena which is the
distinctive teaching of the Hua-yen school of Chinese
Buddhism. The teaching is expressed through the metaphor
of jeweled net of Indra: “Far away in the heavenly abode of
the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net that has been
hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it
stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with
the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a
single glittering jewel in each ‘eye’ of the net, and since the
net itself is infinite in all dimensions, the jewels are infinite
in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars of the
first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now
arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look
closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there
are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number.
Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel
is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an
infinite reflecting process occurring.”
the mutual interpenetration of all phenomena which is the
distinctive teaching of the Hua-yen school of Chinese
Buddhism. The teaching is expressed through the metaphor
of jeweled net of Indra: “Far away in the heavenly abode of
the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net that has been
hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it
stretches out infinitely in all directions. In accordance with
the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificer has hung a
single glittering jewel in each ‘eye’ of the net, and since the
net itself is infinite in all dimensions, the jewels are infinite
in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars of the
first magnitude, a wonderful sight to behold. If we now
arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look
closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there
are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number.
Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel
is also reflecting all the other jewels, so that there is an
infinite reflecting process occurring.”
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