Reflecting Mirrors. Perspectives On Huayan Buddhism (asiatische Forschungen. Monographien-reihe Zur Geschichte, Kultur Und Sprache Der Volker Ost- Und Zentralasiens, Band 151)

摘要

The school of Buddhist thought called Huayan (Hua-yen; Kor. Hwaom, Hwaeom, Jap. Kegon) originated in China in the wake of translations of an extensive collection of Sanskrit Mahayana texts usually referred to as Avatamsaka-sutra ('garland of discourses') and sometimes also as Buddhavatamsaka-sutra ('garland' or 'legion of Buddhas'). It contains, among others, two very important sutras outlining the Bodhisattva Path, Dasabhumika and Gandavyuha, which had circulated as independent texts in India and have survived in their Sanskrit originals. The still unresolved question is whether the individul texts were assembled into one 'garland' in Central Asia or at least started being put together already in India.