This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Huayan school of East Asian Buddhism in a
Western language. This school which received its name from the Chinese translation of the
important Mahayana scripture the Buddhavatam sakasutra flourished in China during the Tang
dynasty (618-907) and spread to Korea and Japan as well. The reader gains an insight into the
development of Huayan Buddhism: The compilation of its base text the Buddhavatam sakasutra
the establishment of Huayan tradition as a special form of East Asian Buddhism and its visual
representations. The book consists of five chapters: 1. State of Field 2. The Buddhavatam.
sakasutra 3. Huayan in China 4. Hwaom Kegon in Korea and Japan and 5. Huayan Hwaom Kegon
Art. The following scholars contributed to this volume: Aramaki Noritoshi Jana Benicka Choe
Yeonshik Bernard Faure Frédéric Girard Imre Hamar Huang Yi-hsun Ishii Kosei Kimura
Kiyotaka Charles Muller Jan Nattier Otake Susumu Joerg Plassen Wei Daoru Dorothy Wong
Zhu Qingzhi. Included are bibliographies of secondary sources on Huayan Buddhism in Western
languages Japanese Chinese and Korean.
