Sanya Nanshan - The Dharma-Door of Nonduality

The Dharma-Door is the entrance to the Dharma, a teaching about a way or method of practice leading to enlightenment. The heavenly existence in the Dharma Realm of Form is eighty-four thousand great kalpas long. Thus there are 94,000 Dharma-doors. Among those, The Dharma-Door of Nonduality is considered as the last one at highest state. Only entering this door, may one attain enlightenment and get access to Nirvana, the realm surpassing life and death. Buddhist perspective shows that Nonduality, meaning "not this not that but this and that are interrelated", "all lives born equal", etc, is the method and notion for Buddhism to perceive the world and the interpretation and inference to relations between essentiality and superficies of all things in universe.

In Vimalakirti Sutra, it says that the Crown Prince Manjushri asked the Licchavi Vimalakirti: "We have all given our own teachings, noble sir. Now, may you elucidate the teaching of the entrance into the principle of nonduality?" Thereupon, the Licchavi Vimalakirti kept his silence, saying nothing at all. The Crown Prince Manjushri applauded the Licchavi Vimalakirti: "Excellent! Excellent, noble sir! This is indeed the entrance into the nonduality of the bodhisattvas. Here there is no use for syllables, sounds, and ideas."

The expression is precise and implies deep Buddhist allegory. We need to practice vigorously the concentration of the mind on the point of Zen.

Nanshan Dharma-Door of Nonduality is the entrance scenery of the park featuring architectural style of North-South Dynasty. Entering this gate means entering an auspicious and serene land of Buddhism. The Chinese characters "Nonduality" outside above the door and "Oneness" inside were inscribed by Mr. Gu Ting-Long, the late well-known calligrapher in his 94. "Oneness" is the homologue of "Nonduality".