Ten Kinds of Bodhisattva Path Begin
This list is built on a striking design: rather than naming ten unrelated paths, it counts upward from one to ten, folding in the tradition's own classic numbered groupings — the single mind of awakening, the two provisions of wisdom and skillful means, the six superknowledges, the seven recollections — and declaring the entire sequence, one through ten, to be a single bodhisattva path.
Counting From One to Seven
Each numbered grouping here is drawn from elsewhere in Buddhist teaching — the six superknowledges, the seven recollections — but the list treats the count itself as meaningful, presenting the single path, the two paths, and onward as one continuous ascent rather than ten separate lists placed side by side.
佛子！菩薩摩訶薩有十種道。何等為十？所謂：一道是菩薩道，不捨獨一菩提心故。二道是菩薩道，出生智慧及方便故。三道是菩薩道，行空、無相、無願，不著三界故。四行是菩薩道，懺除罪障，隨喜福德，恭敬尊重勸請如來，善巧迴向無休息故。五根是菩薩道，安住淨信堅固不動，起大精進所作究竟，一向正念無異攀緣，巧知三昧入出方便，善能分別智慧境界故。六通是菩薩道。所謂；天眼，悉見一切世界所有眾色，知諸眾生死此生彼故；天耳，悉聞諸佛說法，受持憶念，廣為眾生隨根演暢故；他心智，能知他心，自在無礙故；宿命念，憶知過去一切劫數，增長善根故；神足通，隨所應化一切眾生，種種為現，令樂法故；漏盡智，現證實際，起菩薩行不斷絕故。
"Son of the Buddha! A bodhisattva-mahāsattva has ten kinds of path. What are these ten? Namely: the single path is a bodhisattva's path, because it never abandons the sole mind of awakening. The two paths are a bodhisattva's path, because they bring forth wisdom and skillful means. The three paths are a bodhisattva's path, because they practice emptiness, signlessness, and wishlessness, unattached to the three realms. The four practices are a bodhisattva's path, because they repent and remove obstructions of wrongdoing, rejoice in merit, revere and respectfully entreat the tathāgata, and skillfully dedicate all of this without ever resting. The five faculties are a bodhisattva's path, because they abide in pure faith, firm and unmoving; arouse great diligence, bringing everything they do to completion; keep right mindfulness single-mindedly, with no other object of attention; skillfully know the means of entering and emerging from samādhi; and are able to discern the domain of wisdom. The six superknowledges are a bodhisattva's path. Namely: the divine eye, because it sees every form throughout every world, knowing how sentient beings die here and are born there; the divine ear, because it hears every buddha's teaching, upholds and remembers it, and expounds it widely for sentient beings according to their own faculties; the wisdom that knows others' minds, because it knows another's mind with sovereign, unobstructed freedom; the recollection of past lives, because it remembers every kalpa of the past, causing roots of goodness to grow; the spiritual power of unimpeded movement, because it manifests in every kind of way for whichever sentient being is to be transformed, causing them to delight in the dharma; and the wisdom of the extinction of outflows, because it directly realizes ultimate reality, giving rise to bodhisattva practice without ever interrupting it.
七念是菩薩道。所謂：念佛，於一毛孔見無量佛，開悟一切眾生心故；念法，不離一如來眾會，於一切如來眾會中親承妙法，隨諸眾生根性欲樂而為演說，令悟入故；念僧，恒相續見無有休息，於一切世間見菩薩故；念捨，了知一切菩薩捨行，增長廣大布施心故；念戒，不捨菩提心，以一切善根迴向眾生故；念天，常憶念兜率陀天宮一生補處菩薩故；念眾生，智慧方便教化調伏，普及一切無間斷故。
The seven recollections are a bodhisattva's path. Namely: recollecting the buddha, because they see measureless buddhas within a single pore, awakening the minds of every sentient being; recollecting the dharma, because, without ever leaving a single tathāgata's assembly, they personally receive the wondrous dharma within every tathāgata's assembly, expounding it in accordance with every sentient being's own faculties, nature, and delight, causing them to awaken and enter it; recollecting the saṃgha, because they see it continuously without ever resting, seeing bodhisattvas throughout every world; recollecting generosity, because they fully understand every bodhisattva's practice of giving, causing a vast mind of giving to grow; recollecting the precepts, because they never abandon the mind of awakening, dedicating every root of goodness to sentient beings; recollecting the heavens, because they constantly recollect the bodhisattva bound for one more birth who dwells in the palace of Tuṣita heaven; and recollecting sentient beings, because they teach and tame them with wisdom and skillful means, extending this universally to all without any interruption.
一道是菩薩道，不捨獨一菩提心故 — the single path is a bodhisattva's path, because it never abandons the sole mind of awakening. Beginning the entire ascending sequence at "one" rather than at some more elaborate first item sets the tone for the whole list: everything that follows, all the way to ten, is presented as an extension of this same single, unabandoned mind.
Part 751 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-seven. Part 752 continues the ten-part path with the eightfold noble path and the nine sequential absorptions.