華嚴經探玄記 2.31

2.31

Eighth, 'clarifying their stages': if analyzed according to the three vehicles, Samantabhadra and the others are all bodhisattvas of the tenth bhūmi and above, and those spirit kings and others are mostly subsumed under birth according to species, which means the eighth bhūmi and above. If within the One Vehicle, in terms of the limit of conditioned arising, all stages are equal; therefore, one person is endowed with five stages, and each and every stage is all-pervading—one should understand [the rest] by analogy.