Abhimukhī-bhūmi

abhimukhī-bhūmi (T. mngon du 'gyur ba/mngon du phyogs pa མངོན་དུ་འགྱུར་བ་/མངོན་དུ་ཕྱོགས་པ་; C. xianqian di 現前地) is translated as the "manifest ground," "evident ground," etc. It is the sixth of the ten bodhisattva grounds (bhumis) according to the presentation in the Dasabhumika-sutra of the Sanskrit Mahayana tradition.

Patrul Rinpoche states:

At this stage, the pāramitā of wisdom is perfected. All the obscurations associated with ignorance and delusion are purified.

Twelve sets of ten billion qualities are gained, such as the ability to enter into and arise from ten billion samādhi meditations in a single instant, and so on.

One can take birth as a ruler of Tuṣita.

This sixth bhūmi is called ‘Clearly Manifest’, because for bodhisattvas at this stage, all the phenomena of saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are fully evident.

The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism states:

The sixth of the ten bodhisattva grounds. The fact of the dependently arisen nature of existence becomes fully apparent. In the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra this stage is correlated with the abode of superior wisdom that is concomitant with dependent arising.

Sources

• Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University