In this topic we consider those Mahayana Sutras not included under Topic 9, Emptiness Teachings. If early Buddhism was psychologically oriented, focusing on individual liberation and serious spiritual cultivation, Mahayana Buddhism was largely a Buddhism of enthusiasm, devotion, and faith. Its vision was cosmic and extravagant, its literature expansive, poetic, almost over the top. The Lotus sutra was a major influence on Dogen’s Zen and the most widely read Buddhist text throughout the Far East. The Avatamsaka sutra’s cosmic vision of worlds within worlds, atoms within atoms, time and space dissolved, seems to anticipate quantum physics. Its teachings stands behind much of Chinese Zen, as do those of the Vimalakirti sutra, a much shorter and pithier text. The Surangama sutra is a little more obscure but has been important to our study for its analysis of perception and consciousness.