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Avataṃsaka · Flower Garland

Mahāyāna · Huayan

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A vast scriptural world depicts bodhisattva practice and an extraordinarily interconnected cosmos.

One prominent section follows the pilgrim Sudhana learning from many kinds of spiritual friends. Awakening is explored through many encounters rather than a single narrow social role.

A young traveler listens to an older woman teacher beside a village path.
Learning from spiritual friends · an imagined companion to Sudhana’s pilgrimage, not a depiction of one identified encounter. Illustrative artwork, separate from the text.

Huayan thinkers interpret this inheritance through accounts of the mutual implication and interpenetration of phenomena.

This is religious and philosophical literature. Parallels with modern scientific language should not be mistaken for identical theories.

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