Li Tongxuan, a 7-8 century Huayan practitioner, established a unique Huayan thought of his own in Tang China. The originality of Li’s tenet classification (panjiao) lies, not only in the structure of his classification based on individual sūtras rather than sets of teachings, but also in his focus on the mundane world (shisu) as the place of actual practices of compassion. It is in the mundane world that the Principle (li) of non-self/emptiness, guided by the transcendental Fundamental Wisdom (genbenzhi) within one’s mind, is given shape in acts of compassion as the Phenomenal (shi). It is this basic idea of the bodhisattvas’ practice that permeates Li’s tenet classification.