A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t2.24

v2.c19.s6.t2.24

¹ The presentation of the Bhūmis in the Mahāvastu diverges from that in the texts of the Mahāyāna; hence this is probably a transition from the Hīnayāna to the Mahāyāna. A Tibetan Mahāyāna author, whose object is to prove that the doctrine of the Bhūmis was not a Mahāyānistic innovation, alludes to the fact that they already occur in the Mahāvastu. *Cf.* La Vallée Poussin in ERE II, 743 ff.; VIII, 330 note; J. Rahder, Daśabhūmika-Sūtra, Leuven 1926, p. iii ff.