ABSTRACT
Let me now introduce briefly some of the main ideas of two large Indian Mahāyāna sūtras that have become particularly important in East Asian Buddhism. These are the enormous and heterogeneous Avataṃsaka (‘Garland’)Sūtra (Chinese: Huayan; Hua-yen) and the famous Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (‘Lotus’)Sūtra. The Upāyakauśalya (‘Skill in Means’)Sūtra will serve as an additional sūtra source devoted entirely to one of the principal doctrines of the Lotus, the teaching of skill in means (upāya/upāyakauśalya).
