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The Buddhist concept of interconnectedness or emptiness (all things are empty of a separate self) is represented by the metaphor of the Jewel Net of Indra
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- Indra's net of jewels -translation
- of Indra's Net story
- “Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra,
- there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer
- in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions.
- In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities,
- the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each “eye” of the net,
- and since the net itself is infinite in dimension,
- the jewels are infinite in number.
- There hang the jewels, glittering like stars in the first magnitude,
- a wonderful sight to behold.
- If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it,
- we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number.
- Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels,
- so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring"
- Author
- Cook, F. H. (1977). Hua‐Yen Buddhism: The jewel net of Indra. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. [Google Scholar]
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