Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Huayen Reading Materials in English

Thanks Dr Tony Prince for providing me with the following information:

Tom Cleary (Entry into the Realm of Reality: the Guide) consisting of extracts from the wonderful commentary on the Sutra by Li Tungxuan .

Garma C.C. Chang's "The Buddhist Teaching of Totality: The Philosophy of Hwa Yen Buddhism" (1971).

Francis Cook's "Hua-Yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra " (1977) . Cook, who died recently, was a Zen practitioner and he based the book on his PhD thesis.

D.T.Suzuki's third series of "Essays in Zen Buddhism" contains some information about the Avatamsaka Sutra.

Robert Buswell's detailed study of the Korean master Chinul, "The Korean Approach to Zen", includes a lot of quotations from Li Tungxuan, who had a profound influence on Chinul and on Korean Buddhism generally.

Robert Gimello and Peter Gregory's "Studies in Ch'an and Hua-yen" contains some essays on Huayen, as the title indicates.

S.B. Park's "Buddhist Faith and Sudden Enlightenment" draws on Huayen material.

There is also acomparison of Whitehead's philosophy and Huayen in Steve Odin's "Process Metaphysics and Hua-yen Buddhism".


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Lung Zhi added:

Venerable Haiyun Jimeng's "The Dawn of Enlightenment: The Opening Passage of Avatamsaka Sutra with a Commentary"

Cheng Chien Bhikshu's "Manifestation of the Tathagata: Buddhahood According to the Avatamsaka Sutra"

Thomas Cleary's "The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of The Avatamsaka Sutra"

Thomas Cleary's "Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-Yen Buddhism"

Hsuan Hua's "The Vows of Samantabhadra"


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If any of you knows of more English Huayen materials, kindly let me know.

Thank you in advance.

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