འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.14
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 4.14
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4.14
“The second bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of the lack of awareness of subtle points in the trainings so that they are transgressed, and the ignorance that adopts various kinds of activities.
“The third bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of the craving that wishes to attain what has not been attained, and the ignorance that obscures the superior powers of retention.
“The fourth bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance that delights in the flavor of resting in meditation, and the ignorance of craving for pure, extremely excellent qualities.
“The fifth bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of rejecting saṃsāra and the ignorance of seeking for nirvāṇa.
“The sixth bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of movement within the practice,⁵³⁴ and the ignorance of the manifest appearance of features.
“The seventh bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of directly engaging in subtle features,⁵³⁵ and the ignorance of delighting in featureless mentation.
“The eighth bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of exertion in meditation on featurelessness, and the ignorance of attachment to attaining power over features.
“The ninth bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of not being skilled in⁵³⁶ the limitless meanings and the limitless names, words, and letters that are to be taught, and the ignorance of not having attained the power of eloquence as wished for.
“The tenth bhūmi is obscured by these two kinds of ignorance: the ignorance of not having attained mastery over manifesting miracles,⁵³⁷ and the ignorance of not comprehending very subtle, secret activities.