The
Japanese name for a form of
Buddhism. The
Indian
Sanskrit Avatamaska sutra was translated into
Chinese as the Huayen jing. Soon a school, known as the Huayen, formed around its Teachings of the interpenetration of all times and places within every moment.
Reality is compared to a matrix of reflections, called the Jewel Net of Indra: each jewel reflects all the others and its reflection is found in all others.