法華=Saddharmapundarika; 華嚴=Avatarpsaka; 大白牛車=The Great White-bullock Cart of Lotus Sutra; 多寶佛塔=Padoga of Prabhutaratna; 一佛乘=The One Vehicle Buddha; 微塵=Particle
All religions are established for human beings' spiritual needs. Human being is the manifestation of their minds, as human being is the foundation of the creations of all religions in the three realms of samsara. In Buddhism, human beings are considered pivotal to the six kinds of rebirth in samsara; the thirty-two marks of the Buddha are created based on the images of human beings. All of those who accomplish Buddhahood have to come to the world of men to reveal the eight aspects of Buddha's life, therefore it goes without saying that Buddhism is a humanistic religion and sees human beings as the manifestations of the highest spirituality in the universe. In T'ien-t'ai Buddhism, Avatamsaka-sutra is the first period of Buddha's teaching, while Saddharmapundarika Sutra is the last period of Buddha's teaching; they are both the core of the T'ien-t'ai teachings, displaying all the states of human being from the causal ground to the resulting Buddhahood. Founded by T'ien-t'ai Buddhism, although the five periods of Sakyamuni's teaching are hierarchical and orderly, the first and last period are equal inwardly and outwardly, based on people's aptitudes, and deprived of any distinctions in status. Avatamsaka-sutra represents the differentiating vehicle of the extraordinary three vehicles, while Saddharmapundarika Sutra represents the unitary vehicle of the three perfect vehicles. To be frank, Avatamsaka-sutra is about Buddha's lectures on the ultimate ideals and meanings pointed out in Saddharmapundarika Sutra, while Saddharmapundarika Sutra is about attaining perfectly the resulting Buddhahood and manifesting Buddha's spirit of saving the world and the symbol of his practice and realization If Hrdaya-sutra is the condensation of Bore Sutra, then Saddharmapundarika Sutra is the essence of Avatamsaka-sutra Though temporally and spatially separate, these two grand sutras are identical in meanings and goals, meant to explicate the perfect teachings first, all things in the universe are created by the heart; second, everyone posses Buddha nature and can accomplish Buddhahood. The goals of these two grand sutras are to reveal to human beings the immanence of the true marks of all elemental constructs and athagatagarbha (the womb of the tathagata) and make human beings realize the resulting Buddhahood unconditioned Buddha-nature, which is the quintessence of Saddharmapundarika Sutra.
