Da Huayen Monastery
4th floor, Chung Cheng Road
Chungho Taipei 23586 Taiwan
Phone: +886 (2) 3234-5945
Fax: +886 (2) 3234-6951
南無大方廣佛華嚴經華嚴海會佛菩薩
Huayen on Indra's Net
Truth with no definition
Abide in truth as it abides in you
Samantabhadra, Manjursri, and Vairocana make up the Hua-yen Trinity.
Vairocana Buddha
Vairocana, the fruit of enlightenment and Truth Body (Dharmakāya) of Gautama Buddha, is the central deity of the Huayen (Hua-yen) Trinity.
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva
Samantabhadra is the seed and principal deity of the Complete Discipline professing the law of Natural Origination. Its adherents seek to realize the essence or mark of the bhūtatathatā.
Manjursri Bodhisattva
Manjursri is the seed and principal deity of Mahayana schools professing the law of Dependent Origination and Emptiness. These Sunyavāda schools seek to realize Śūnyatā.
Whereas general Buddhist doctrines presuppose a universe in which beings and things arise from conditions and thus are unsubstantial and impermanent, the Hua-yen School postulates a universe in which one atom gives rise to all things, beings and phenomena and thus it contains, interpenetrates and interconnects inclusively with them all in the universe.
Anyone with a healthy character can practice Buddhism. In general, Buddhism postulates a universe in which all phenomena, beings, and things arise interdependently and interactively from Dependent Origination based on the core principle of Emptiness (Śūnyatā), a state that is neither existent nor non-existent. The ultimate goal of most Mahayana Buddhist schools including Dhayna Buddhism is to attain Śūnyatā, a state of Emptiness that is neither existent nor non-existent. The fundamental difference between Huayen and other Buddhist schools is that the attainment of Prajñā Śūnyatā is only the starting point of 41 levels of true practice, not its final goal. Huayen Buddhism is often known as Samantabhadra-yana, the Vehicle of the Wholly Virtuous, because its practitioners cultivate the vows and conducts of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.
The Avatamsaka Sutra spoken by Vairocana Buddha describes the state of Enlightenment of the Buddha and forms the basis of the metaphysics of inter-penetration and mutual containment of all phenomena in the universe. The Opening Passage, one of the basic Huayen liturgies, is chanted in Mandarin by the monks of Da Huayen Monastery every day before dawn in the morning service to remember the Buddha's and his devotees' unyielding will towards liberation from samsara.
