華嚴經探玄記 4.84

4.84

In Bhadramukha's answer, there are three hundred and sixty-three verses in total: the first thirteen are in five-character meter; the latter three hundred and fifty are in seven-character meter. Within this, it is broadly divided into eight sections: 1. The section praising the profundity as difficult to express; 2. The section briefly indicating the characteristics of practice; 3. The section briefly discerning superior capacity; 4. The section gathering the stages of various practices; 5. The section on vast function without directional limit; 6. The section illustrating the abstruse purport through metaphors; 7. The section on comparative appraisal to encourage generation [of bodhicitta]; 8. The section revealing the actual realization.