金剛經纂要刊定記 1.73

1.73

From "abiding in the eighteen" onward: Introducing and praising [the text] on the basis of the two treatises. According to Asaṅga's treatise, from where the Buddha begins the main discourse down to the end of the sūtra, it is divided into eighteen abodes. That is, the first is the abode of generating the aspiration [for bodhi], down to the eighteenth, the abode of seeking the Buddha stage above. These are the abodes where practitioners cultivating the Great Vehicle abide from cause to fruit.