華嚴經探玄記 18.32

18.32

Ninth, regarding the matters and principles of the dharmadhātu, universally applying to all stages below there are ten gates in total: 1. the dharmadhātu of direct retribution; 2. the dharmadhātu of environmental retribution; 3. the dharmadhātu of manifested characteristics; 4. the dharmadhātu of expressing meaning; 5. the dharmadhātu of verbal discourse; 6. the dharmadhātu of doctrinal principle; 7. the dharmadhātu of karmic function; 8. the dharmadhātu of explaining past causes; 9. the dharmadhātu of concluding one's own stage; 10. the dharmadhātu of recommending superior advancement. These ten gates, however, are of the same conditioned arising, mutually interpenetrating without obstruction, and any single one possesses them all. In the text below, they are possessed or not possessed; this should be inferred according to the text.