Fifty-five Bodhisattva stages

 
fifty-five Bodhisattva stages: include the Ten Faiths;

the Ten Dwellings; the Ten Practices;
the Ten Transferences;
the Four Aiding Practices;
the Ten Grounds (Bhumi) or stages of cultivation of a bodhisattva; and
Equal Enlightenment, which comes before the Wonderful Enlightenment of Buddhahood.

Also explained as the beginning (the stage of “dry wisdom” which precedes the Ten Faiths), to the intermediate stages (the long period of cultivation as a bodhisattva), and the end (the Wonderful Enlightenment or Buddhahood).

See; Shurangama Sutra

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