Kegon-fu

"Kegon-fu" — a record of or meditation on the Kegon Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra), the great Mahayana text that describes a universe of infinite mutual reflection and interpenetration — appears in this 1937 print as a title that announces the entire 1937 series' Buddhist foundation. The Kegon Sutra's cosmological vision — Indra's net of jewels, each reflecting all the others, the universe as an infinite system of mutual causation — was profoundly compatible with Munakata's instinctive sense that everything was connected, that the sacred permeated the ordinary, that his carving knife was in contact with something larger than itself.