སངས་རྒྱས་ཕལ་པ་ཆ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 31.19
The Ten Bhūmis; The Chapter on the Scale of Life; The Dwellings of Bodhisattvas; The Stem Array; The Stem Array 31.19
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31.19
and (10) are in the supreme essence of the Dharma, in the realm of space, the final highest point.
“Simultaneous with developing that motivation, the bodhisattva mahāsattva becomes transcendent, for he (1) rises above the level of ordinary beings, (2) becomes an immutable¹⁰⁸ bodhisattva, (3) becomes faultless within the family of the sugatas, (4) has gone beyond caste identification, (5) has transcended all worldly ways, (6) follows the way that transcends the world, (7) remains perfectly in the nature of a bodhisattva, (8) has the unchanging possession of the bodhisattva state, (9) is in the lineage of the tathāgatas of the three times, and (10) is destined for buddhahood.¹⁰⁹
“O jinaputras! The bodhisattva established in the Dharma resides unshakably upon the bodhisattva bhūmi named Perfect Joy.
“O jinaputras! The bodhisattva who is on the Perfect Joy bodhisattva bhūmi has (1) a plenitude of joy, (2) a plenitude of admiration,¹¹⁰ (3) a plenitude of happiness,¹¹¹ (4) a plenitude of rapture,¹¹² (5) a plenitude of pleasure,¹¹³ (6) a plenitude of delight,¹¹⁴ (7) a plenitude of enthusiasm,¹¹⁵ (8) a plenitude of calmness,¹¹⁶ (9) a plenitude of harmlessness,¹¹⁷ and (10) a plenitude of freedom from anger.¹¹⁸
“O jinaputras! In that way, the bodhisattva who resides on the Perfect Joy bodhisattva bhūmi has (1) perfect joy thinking of the buddha bhagavats, (2) perfect joy thinking of¹¹⁹ the Buddhadharma, (3) perfect joy thinking of the bodhisattva mahāsattvas,
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