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====Huayan school====
The [[Huayan school]] or "Flower Garland" school is a tradition of [[Chinese Buddhism|Chinese Buddhist philosophy]] that flourished in [[medieval China]] during the [[Tang period]] (7th–10th centuries CE). It is based on the ''[[Buddhāvataṃsaka Sūtra|Avataṃsaka Sūtra]]'', and on a lengthy Chinese interpretation of it, the ''Huayan Lun''. The name "Flower Garland" is meant to suggest the crowning glory of profound understanding.

The most important philosophical contributions of the Huayan school were in the area of its [[metaphysics]]. It taught the doctrine of the mutual containment and interpenetration of all phenomena, as expressed in [[Indra's net]]. One thing contains all other existing things, and all existing things contain that one thing.

Distinctive features of this approach to Buddhist philosophy include:
* Truth (or reality) is understood as encompassing and interpenetrating falsehood (or illusion), and vice versa
* Good is understood as encompassing and interpenetrating evil
* Similarly, all mind-made distinctions are understood as "collapsing" in the enlightened understanding of [[Śūnyatā|emptiness]] (a tradition traced back to the Indian Buddhist philosopher [[Nagarjuna|Nāgārjuna]])

Huayan teaches the [[Four Dharmadhātu]], four ways to view reality:
# All dharmas are seen as particular separate events;
# All events are an expression of the absolute;
# Events and essence interpenetrate;
# All events interpenetrate.{{sfn|Garfield|Edelglass|2011|p=76}}