妙法蓮華經玄義 4.199

4.199

Since there are such immeasurable gradations, the titles and enumerations, the heights of severance and suppression, and the correspondences to the various dharma-gates in the sūtras and treatises are largely divergent. For example, the *Avataṃsaka* clarifies forty-one stages, namely the thirty minds, the ten stages, and the buddha stage. The *Yingluo* clarifies fifty-two stages. The *Benevolent Kings* clarifies fifty-one stages. The *New Suvarṇaprabhāsa-sūtra* only presents the ten stages and the buddha fruit. The *Sujayikā-rāja Prajñāpāramitā* clarifies the fourteen forbearances. The *Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā* only clarifies the ten stages. The *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra* clarifies the five practices and ten virtues; matching stages according to their meaning, it seems to distinguish the thirty minds, ten stages, and buddha stage, yet its text does not present the names. Furthermore, the *Daśabhūmika-śāstra*, the *Mahāyānasaṃgraha*, the *Bodhisattvabhūmi-śāstra*, the *Daśabhūmika-vibhāṣā*, and the *Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa* all explain the bodhisattva stages, yet their extent, inclusions, and omissions differ (and so forth).