Concept
Ten Stages Sutra
Overview
The Ten Stages Sutra (Sanskrit: Daśabhūmika Sūtra; simplified Chinese: 十地经; traditional Chinese: 十地經; pinyin: shí dì jīng; Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པའི་མདོ། Wylie: phags pa sa bcu pa'i mdo) also known as the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture. The sutra also appears as the 26th chapter of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Modern Buddhist studies scholars generally hold that these Mahayana sūtras first began to appear between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE. They continued being composed, compiled and edited until the decline of Buddhism in India.
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In some cases, arbitrary numerical relations are introduced into the definition: thus, a leaf is called _bilobate_, when it is divided into two parts by a notch; but if the notch go to the middle of its length, it is _bifid_; if it go near the base of the leaf, it is _bipartite_; if to the base, it is _bisect_. Thus, too, a pod of a cruciferous plant is a _siliqua_, if it is four times as long as it is broad, but if…
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
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In its primary stage, every germ consists of a substance that is uniform throughout, both in texture and chemical composition. The first step is the appearance of a difference between two parts of this substance; or, as the phenomenon is called in physiological language, a differentiation. Each of these differentiated divisions presently begins itself to exhibit some contrast of parts: and by and by these secondary…
Herbert Spencer, Essays
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This _prâna_ and this _âkâsa_ eternally exist, and they combine and recombine and form all manifestation. Then at the end of the cycle everything subsides and goes back to the unmanifested form of _âkâsa_ and _prâna_. There is in the Rig Veda, the oldest scriptures in existence, a beautiful passage describing creation, and it is most poetical--“When there was neither ought nor nought, when darkness was rolling over…
Swami Vivekananda, Jnâna Yoga, Part II
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Place in the tradition
Part of Idealism.