Dushun’s Huayan Fajie Guan Men (Meditative Approaches to the Huayan Dharmadhā tu)

Abstract The Huayan tradition in China takes its basic inspiration from the apocryphal Mahāyāna text known as the Huayan Jing (“Avatam. saka” or “Flower Garland” sūtra). One of the most basic models in the Huayan tradition, both historically and philosophically, is the idea of the Fourfold Dharmadhātu, which highlights the perspectivalism for which Huayan is famous. This model is suggested in an early work attributed to Dushun (c. 600 C.E.), a miracle worker and healer who was retrospectively designated First Patriarch of the Huayan tradition in China. Here we present a translation of Dushun’s seminal text Huayan Fajie Guan Men (Meditative Approaches to the Huayan Dharmadhātu).