From Huayan to Zen Buddhism

In this video lecture, Prof Van Norden explains the Huayan Buddhist teaching that "one is all and all is one" as illustrated by the "Essay on the Golden Lion" of Fazang, and how this leads to Zen Buddhism. Zoom lecture recorded 24 March 2021.
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Part 1: Fazang, “Essay on the Golden Lion”
0:50 Background and Overview of the Golden Lion
7:52 Dependent Arising: The Statue Exists Because of Causes
10:35 Emptiness of Appearances: There Is No Lion
14:27 All Is One, and One Is All
15:55 Two Metaphors: Lion Statue and Rafter
17:34 Another Metaphor: The Pattern of Indra’s Net
Part 2: From Huayan to Zen
19:42 The Zen Monk and the Hotdog Vendor
22:28 The Relationship of Huayan to Zen
30:06 The Platform Sutra: The Two Poems
43:52 The Platform Sutra: Major Themes
46:53 The Platform Sutra: Stability and Insight
49:33 The Platform Sutra: Susbtance and Function
51:47 The Platform Sutra: The Lamp Metaphor
57:23 The Platform Sutra: Among Phenomena Yet Separate from Them
1:05:01 Lecture Overview

[@luisfbjunqueira5837]

Many thanks. Your lectures are all so clear and engaging!

[@timdale4500]

Thanks for this Bryan

[@ludwigvictorin1849]

Dear Prof. van Norden, I thank you for your lecture, but I humbly disagree with some things you say. As you know better than I do, Fazang is identifying „li“ to emptiness, which he compares to formless empty space. But the pattern of all things is certainly not totally formless as empty space. I guess it is rather like this: Emptiness or „li“ is like newtonian space, because everything sort of exists within it. In fact, Mahayana thinkers often times also claim, that from one perspective there is no diffrence between empty space and the stuff within it. But from another perspective there is. I guess the same paradox is true for „li“ and the pattern. The two are neither identical nor diffrent So, you can translate li as pattern but to me that sounds like a paradoxical expression of the paradoxical unity of Li and the pattern. However, maybe I am wrong, since I am german and therefore just some weird philosopher 🤣🤣🤣

[@wondererasl]

中文真是不可翻译的语言，只少不能被现有的任何语言所翻译。

[@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy]

我不同意。

[@wondererasl]

@@BryanVanNordenPhilosophy 尊重您的异见 :) 中文诗词的音律节奏之美和语意双关之意境您如何用英语翻译体现？ 将中文，尤其是文言文翻译成现代英语就像是将绫罗绸缎的服装改成用粗麻线来缝制，虽都可遮体保暖， 但感觉和品味的差距只有亲身体验才能感受到。