Daśabhūmīśvara-nāma-mahāyānasūtra-ratnarāja

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 contains one illustration of a ten-handed Bodhisattva (f.1b), generally associated with Avalokiteśvara, and includes eleven chapters (up to pariṃdanāparivartto-nāmaikādaśaḥ), similar to manuscript Sl. No. 165.