The greatest quality of the bodhisa

The greatest quality of the bodhisattva is compassion for others. So they live selflessly, and like ascetics they do not seek gain for themselves.

In Mahayana, the notion of self is the root of all defilements / karma.

Hua-yan had a great impact on East Asian philosophy. It influenced later Confucianism in promoting the idea of one-in-all, which became adopted in Confucianism.

Hua-yan probably incorporated ideas from Daoism in the sense of a unifying theory of the world that transcends conventional reality.