Sunday, September 21, 2008

Dashabhumika

Da?abhūmikā was a sect in China, based around Vasubandhu's Sanskrit sutra of the same name . It was later absorbed in to the Huayan school, which adopted this sutra as part of its own central text.

The Da?abhūmikā shastra is itself one of the most important chapter of the compounded Avatamsaka Sutra, with the Gundhavyuha sutra. It describes the Bodhisattvayana, that is the ten stages to Buddhahood, or rather the ten grounds on which a Bodhisattva marches on its path towards complete Enlightenment, Bodhi. See .

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