The History of Buddhist Thought c24.28

c24.28

¹ Dr. N. Dutt speaks of “a list of ten Hinayānic bhūmis” as occurring in the Śatasāhasrikā, a Mahāyāna work, but this is a misapprehension. It is not a single list, but the names of the three stages or goals attained by following the three yānas. The first seven are a list of the stages of the aspirant for arhatship. It ends with kṛtāvī “he who has done what he had to do”, i.e. the arhat. This list occurs separately in Mvyut., 50, where it is expressly called the stages of the disciple. The eighth is the Pratyekabuddhabhūmi, which is also a separate career and stage and “hīnayānic”. The two last are Bodhisattvabhūmi and Buddhabhūmi, and are probably intended to be contrasted with the previous careers. Dr. Dutt, however, tries to equate the whole ten with the ten Mahāyāna stages; Aspects, pp. 286–9.