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3. Prabhakari (Illuminating). This stage is so called
because the bodhisattva obtains samadhi with the ability
to hold dharanis (long incantations to various Buddhas,
bodhisattvas, and deities), and is then pervaded by an
infinite wisdom-light.
4. Archishmati (Flaming Wisdom). The bodhisattva
who reaches this stage has obtained success in sunyata
and the fire of wisdom which burns up all sorrows has
been established from his concentrations upon the
thirty-seven Bodhi-branches.
5. Sudurjaya (Difficult to Conquer). Some expedient
methods are very hard to perform by experience of
sunyata. One who reaches this stage is freed from such
difficulties.
6. Abhimukhi (Appearing Face to Face). What has
appeared? The identity of good conduct (merits and
compassion) and sunyata is clearly seen by one. At the
stage one makes great efforts to investigate by samapatti
all the good deeds he or she has performed and finds
that throughout they are void and formless.
7. Duramgama (Traveling Far). In this stage one seems
to be on a very long journey into the distance, all the
time pressing on without either stopping or forcing
oneself. The bodhisattva easily comes close to the pure
unity of the function of sunyata (for one aspect of this,
of a group of ten given in the Hua Yan philosophy, see
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