Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s3.t1.7

c5.s3.t1.7

The *Mahāvastu* also speaks of the existence of the three Yānas¹ and of the paths and practices to be followed by a Bodhisattva. It mentions the four *caryās* of a Bodhisattva and the ten *bhūmis* but the conception of the *bhūmis*, as will be shown hereafter,² has very little in common with that of the ten *bhūmis* of the *Daśabhūmikasūtra* except the first two. Of course, it may be assumed that the Lokottaravāda conception of the *bhūmis* served as the seed for the later development of the Mahāyānic conception.