華嚴一乘教義分齊章 1.93

1.93

The seventh is distinction in stages: namely, all the characteristics of stages in this One Vehicle are mutually equal from top to bottom, yet every single stage subsumes all stages; therefore, even the stages of buddhas and so on are within the stage of faith and the others, and the other stages are likewise. In the Three Vehicles it is not like this; merely following the hierarchical ascent and descent of each stage, they are not intermingled. The rest is as explained below.