This article reconsiders the Whiteheadian critique of Huayan temporal symmetry in light of Fazang, Buddhist monk's views. As interest in Huayan thought among Western scholars has grown over the last few decades, a number of individuals have noted similarities between A.N. Whitehead's ideas of reality as a process of arising actual occasions and Huayan doctrines concerning the interdependent arising of dharmas. Comparisons of the two systems do show striking similarities, but as Steve Odin has pointed out, one area of noteworthy difference may be their views of temporal passage.