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 | | Dogen does not make the following connection explicitly, but, as Ricoeur suggests, we might follow Dogen's hermeneutic lead in creative interpretation, his active turning of the Dharma Flower through playful pursuit of metaphors. |
 | | Thus we may also recall that the "ground," chi in the "open space under the ground," is the Chinese character used for bhumi, the stages or grounds in the system of the ten stages of bodhisattva development, as expressed in the Dashabhumika Sutra (Cleary 1993, pp. |
 | | This might then imply that the underground bodhisattvas in chapter fifteen of the Lotus Sutra emerge through immediate insight into the emptiness of all bhumis, or stages, emblematic of Paul Groner's shortening of the path or Jan Nattier's leap of faith (as discussed above). |
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