This Buddhist treatise describes ten different stages that one should go through before attaining Buddhahood. These stages are known as bhūmis, from which the title of the work is derived. This text forms one of the nine Dharmas, or sacred scriptures, of the Nepalese Buddhists. Kumārajīva and a collaborator translated this text into Chinese under the name Shi-chu-king. It is composed in a narrative form and claims to have been related by the Buddha, as is the case with most Mahāyāna sūtras. (Mitra, 1882, p.81). This manuscript is similar to Sl. No. 165 and 166, although the name of the last chapter is not mentioned in the colophon.
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