@BryanVanNorden Are there any living traditions of Huayen Buddhism? If somebody wants to "become" a Huayen Buddhist practitioner is that do-able?
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Replying to @ericlinuskaplan
Huayan survives as Kegon in Japan, but as a living tradition Huayan teachings were largely absorbed by Chan/Zen.
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Replying to @BryanVanNorden
how did that happen? they seem pretty different
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Replying to @ericlinuskaplan @BryanVanNorden
The community of nuns at the Avataṃsaka Buddhist Lotus Society (美國華嚴蓮社) could count as a living Huayan tradition. I've practiced with them in both Taiwan and the US. Their abbess at the time I practiced with them in 2016 was Ven. Hsien Du (賢度法師).
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The late Ven. Master Hsuan Hua (宣化大師), founder of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (萬佛聖城), was also a major proponent of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra and Huayan broadly. I have a few years of experience with this community.
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That said, lineages are mostly derived from the Chan school in Chinese Buddhism, even among those communities whose practices are predominantly Pure Land, Huayan, esoteric, etc. Generally speaking, Chinese Buddhism is highly syncretic, in my experience.
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