Q) If the philosophical underpinnings of Chan (emptiness & oneness and so forth) came out of the Huayen school, were these Buddhists in close contact with Chan Buddhists? Did Chan Buddhism come to these similar ideas by coincidence, or is it possible that Chan itself emerged out of the the Huayan school?

In this podcast:

• The development of Chinese Buddhism.
• Emptiness sunyata and oneness samadhi from Indian Buddhism
• The inter-relationship of Chan/Huayen
• Dependent origination and Indra's net a Chinese rendition of relationship
• Fa-tsang (3rd patriarch of Huayen), the rafter and the house, sameness and difference
• Five ranks of koans
• Book recommendations.