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The fifty-two stages in the process of becoming a Buddha; of these fifty-one are to bodhisattvahood, the fifty-second to Buddhahood. They are: Ten [lang id =1028]十信 or stages of faith; thirty of the [lang id =1028]三賢 or three grades of virtue i. e. ten [lang id =1028]十住, ten [lang id =1028]十行, and ten [lang id =1028]十廻向; and twelve of the three grades of [lang id =1028]聖 holiness, or sainthood, i. e. ten [lang id =1028]地, plus [lang id =1028]等覺 and [lang id =1028]妙覺. These are the Tiantai stages; there are others, and the number and character of the stages vary in different schools.