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entry into the womb, delivery, birth, enjoyment of sensual desires, renunciation, and the practice of austerities in the households famous as lords or famous as worthy of offerings, and demonstrating the sequential stages of relinquishing that and attaining manifest perfect bodhi." "Bhagavān, through which spoken utterances of the consecrated body of the Tathāgata are the realms of those to be subdued that are not yet matured made to mature, and those that are matured made liberated through that very ālambana? How many spoken utterances does he proclaim?" "Mañjuśrī, there are these three spoken utterances of the Tathāgata: the utterance of sūtra, the utterance of vinaya, and the utterance of mātṛkā." "Bhagavān, what is sūtra? What is vinaya? What is mātṛkā?" "Mañjuśrī, wherever I have taught merely the collection of entities of dharmas with reference to four, nine, or twenty-nine entities, that is sūtra. What are the four entities? They are: the entity of hearing, the entity of going for refuge, the entity of training, and the entity of bodhi. What are the nine entities? The entity of designation as a sentient being, the entity of its enjoyment, the entity of its arising, the entity of the abiding of its arising, the entity of its affliction and purification, the entity of its varieties, the entity of the teacher, the entity of what is to be taught, and the entity of the retinue. What are the twenty-nine entities? Starting from the side of affliction: the entity of collecting saṃskāras, the entity of following their sequence, the entity of the causes of future arising in terms of persons, the entity of the causes of future arising in terms of dharmas, and the [side] of complete purification—