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Indra's net
Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit ''Indrajāla'') is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Śūnyatā (emptiness), pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination),〔.〕 and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy.
The ''metaphor'' of Indra's net was developed by the Mahayana school in the third-century ''Avatamsaka Sutra'' and later by the Huayan school between the 6th and 8th centuries.
==Huayan school==
"Indra's net" is the net of the Vedic god Indra, whose net hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Hindu cosmology and Hindu mythology. Indra's net has a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, and each jewel is reflected in all of the other jewels. In the Avatamsaka Sutra, the image of "Indra's net" is used to describe the interconnectedness of the universe:
This metaphor plays an essential role in the Chinese Huayan school, where it is used to describe the interpenetration of microcosmos and macrocosmos. Fazang (643–712) used the golden statue of a lion to demonstrate the Huayan vision of interpenetration to empress Wu:
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