華嚴經探玄記 1.13

1.13

Sixth, because it reveals stages: it reveals the bodhisattva's practice of the causes of buddhahood, which proceeds along a single path to the fruit, possessing five stages. In this there are also two kinds: first, the gate of sequential array, meaning that only after fulfilling the ten faiths, ten understandings, ten practices, ten dedications, and ten bhūmis does one finally reach the Buddha stage, proceeding step by step from the subtle to the prominent. Second, the gate of perfect interpenetration and mutual subsumption, meaning that within one stage all prior and subsequent stages are subsumed; therefore, as each and every stage is fulfilled, one reaches the Buddha stage. The unimpededness of these two is expounded in detail in the various assemblies described in the text below.