Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s8.1

Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c8.s8.1

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c8.s8.1

A Bodhisattva, on the completion of the mārgas, passes to the sixth bhūmi and realises the ten kinds of sameness,¹ viz., the sameness of all dharmas on account of their being (i) animitta (baseless), (ii) alakṣaṇa (signless), (iii) anutpāda (originless), (iv) ajāta (unborn), (v) vivikta (detached), (vi) ādiviśuddha (pure in the very beginning), (vii) niṣprapañca (inexpressible), (viii) anāyūha-niryūha (non-taken and non-rejected), (ix) māyāsvapnapratibhāsapratiśrutkopama (similar to dream, illusion, or echo), and (x) bhāvābhāvādvaya (identity of existence and non-existence).

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Bodhisattvabhūmi — Sanskrit