CHENGGUAN'S THEORY OF THE FOUR DHARMA-DHĀTUS

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" CHENGGUAN'S THEORY OF THE FOUR DHARMA-DHĀTUS "
Imre Hamar

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811377
Doc. No	:	LA99051
Main Entry	:	Imre Hamar
Title & Author	:	CHENGGUAN'S THEORY OF THE FOUR DHARMA-DHĀTUS [Article]\ Imre Hamar
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	1998
Volume/ Issue Number	:	51-1/2
Page No	:	1--19
Abstract	:	Chengguan (738-839), the fourth patriarch of the Huayan tradition of Chinese Buddhism, formed and elaborated the theory of the four dharma-dhātus, i.e. the dharma-dhātu of phenomena, the dharma-dhātu of principle, the dharma-dhātu of the non-obstruction of phenomena and principle, the dharma-dhātu of the non-obstruction of phenomena and phenomena. With this invention he could synthesize two classical Huayan concepts, the nature origination, which explains the origination of phenomena from the Absolute, and the dharma-dhātu dependent arising, which depicts the interrelatedness of phenomena. Due to the increasing influence of Chan Buddhism, in Chengguan's teaching the four dharma-dhātus became closely associated with the Buddhist praxis, the meditation, and soterology, the bodhisattva path.