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Huayan

The Flower Garland school of Chinese Buddhism, teaching the unobstructed interpenetration of all phenomena.

Also: Hua-yen, Kegon

Mahāyāna, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism

Huayan, founded on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and systematized by Fazang in the seventh century, teaches that principle and phenomena, and every phenomenon and every other, interpenetrate without obstruction. Its vision of totality deeply influenced Chan and Neo-Confucian thought.