Daśabhūmika Sūtra (Sanskrit). A seminal Mahāyāna sūtra which describes the standard set of ten levels (bhūmi) that are traversed by a Bodhisattva on the path to enlightenment (bodhi). Forming a section of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, the work survives in Sanskrit as well as in translations in Tibetan and Chinese.

A Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 2003, 2004 (which is available in electronic version from answer.com)