Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s5.34

Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c8.s5.34

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c8.s5.34

The practices of the fourth, fifth and sixth bhūmis correspond to the Adhipaññā practices of the Hinayānists. In the Bodhisattvabhūmi, three bhūmis are put under Adhiprajñā-vihāra, the reason being that the Bodhisattva acquires Prajñā by three different means (tribhir mukhaiḥ), viz., bodhipakṣika dharmas, the four truths, and the causal law. So it subdivides this Vihāra into three:

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Bodhisattvabhūmi — Sanskrit