 Through the fusion of the ideas of the Avatamsaka Sutra and Awakening of Faith in Mahayana, Huayan Buddhism developed a distinctive interpretation of the concepts of “emptiness” and “no-self.” The original Indian Buddhist view that there are no selves transformed into the Chinese Buddhist view that there is no individual self, but there is a sort of transpersonal self (One Mind) of which all the transient and ontologically interdependent aspects of reality are parts. The fundamental human vice is selfishness, which is caused by the illusory belief in individual selves, and the fundamental human virtue is universal compassion, which is caused by the recognition that we are all parts of one, transpersonal reality. To fail to have compassion for another person is like ignoring a wound to my own limb because it is temporarily numb. 