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THE ATLAS OF THE EMPTY THRONE
Fazang
Fazang
nature
The systematiser of Huayan, who explained interpenetration to Empress Wu by setting ten mirrors around a golden lion with a lamp — every mirror holding every other mirror's image, endlessly, in one room she could stand inside.
The author of Indra's net as a working philosophy rather than a pretty image — and therefore the author of this door's deepest true rhyme with the Tree.
rhymes with
sephirahtiferet
whyTiferet is the harmonising centre through which everything relates to everything — which is Huayan's entire thesis, minus a centre.
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fazang · huayan · golden lion · interpenetration
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