Dasabhumika-vibhāsā

The Dasabhumika-vibhāsā (Chinese: Shízhù pípōshā lùn, 十住毘婆沙論, Taisho no. 1521) also known as the Ten Stages Treatise (十住論) is a Buddhist Treatise on the Daśabhūmika-sūtra attributed to Nāgārjuna. The treatise only survives in a seventeen fascicle Chinese translation completed by the Kuchean translator monk Kumārajīva (344–413). Kumārajīva is said to have received the text from Buddhayaśas, who recited the work. The original Sanskrit text has not been preserved, nor is there any other surviving translations into other languages.

The Ten Stages Treatise is a work on the bodhisattva path, focusing on the essential practices for entering the first two bodhisattva stages (bhūmi). The text also contains an influential passage which discusses the difficulty of the traditional bodhisattva path and an alternative method to liberation which is based on Buddha recollection (Buddhānusmṛti). This passage was significantly influential on the Pure Land Buddhist tradition which emphasized the practice of nianfo, meditation on Amitabha Buddha, especially via the recitation of his name.