According to many traditions within Mahāyāna Buddhism, on the way to becoming a Buddha, a bodhisattva proceeds through ten, or sometimes fourteen, grounds or bhūmis.

The chapter of ten grounds in the Avataṃsaka Sūtra refers to 52 stages.

A course in ethics led by Dr Hartmut Kliemt at the University of Duisburg where the main text used was Singer's Practical Ethics was, according to Singer, " subjected to organized and repeated disruption by protesters objecting to the use of the book on the grounds that in one of its ten chapters it advocates active euthanasia for severely disabled newborn infants ".

In the 1870s, the steam-driven rides were introduced and they were located at the Tattenham Corner end of the grounds and the fair was one for ten days and entertained hundreds of thousands.

Gathering the other league owners together to contribute to the unprecedented amount on the grounds that inking such a major star gave instant credibility to the new rival league that was competing directly against the entrenched NHL, Jets ' owner Ben Hatskin agreed to the sum, and signed Hull as a player / coach for a contract worth $ 1, 000, 000 over ten years.

Prairie du Pont is about ten or twelve feet higher than Cahokia, and in the time of the floods, the people of the Latter village were obliged to flee to the bluffs and higher grounds for safety.

There are ten major fishing grounds around Matinicus Isle that the island's fishermen and Vinalhaven fishermen have used for centuries to capture such groundfish as cod, haddock, pollock, and cusk as well as lobsters.

“ Located ten miles from Philadelphia, on the line of the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, three minutes walk from Morton Station – it is reached in from 20 to 30 minutes by 21 trains daily … To the west lies the magnificent Swarthmore College, and to the southeast, three miles away, lies the Delaware River … its school is one of the finest in the county ; its houses are neat and attractive, and their owners take great pride in their homes and the adornment of their grounds .”

" Everyone in the audience applauded and the parade participants at the square grounds ( which included veteran soldiers and officers of the KPA ) shouted " ten thousand years " three times after that.

He lived in the Hospital grounds until his death ten years later, leaving unfinished his final work, a play about St. Rose of Lima.

It is famed for its some ten thousand cranes that migrate from Siberia every year to winter in the mild climes of southern Japan at the Izumi crane migration grounds.

Nevill Hall Hospital, built in the grounds of a mansion, has a stand of ten planted adjacent to the Pathology Laboratory.

Six of the ten fallen cadets are buried on VMI grounds behind the statue " Virginia Mourning Her Dead " by sculptor Moses Ezekiel, a VMI graduate who was also wounded in the Battle of New Market.

As it stands, the UK requires equal treatment based on ten major grounds.

This submission was accepted by the Court of Appeal and, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, Martin's murder conviction was replaced by manslaughter carrying a five year sentence, and his ten year sentence for wounding Fearon was reduced to three years.

On 20 July 2011, a civil-court jury awarded ownership of the ten coins to the U. S Government on grounds that the coins were stolen from the mint.

The principal at the time, Deborah Morse, took the banner from him and suspended him for ten days, on the grounds that the banner opposed the school's mission and anti-drug policy.

It describes the Bodhisattvayana, that is the ten stages to Buddhahood, or rather the ten grounds on which a Bodhisattva marches on its path towards complete Enlightenment, or Bodhi.

Leedskalnin charged visitors ten cents a head to tour the castle grounds.

Many of Ireland's Pitch and Putt courses are situated in the grounds of a hospital like St. Stephen ’ s, which lies just ten kilometres from Ireland ’ s second city ( and one of Pitch and Putt ’ s strongholds ) – Cork.

In 2008, ten memorial plaques were laid along the Prefontaine Memorial Race route, the former training grounds of Prefontaine.

Despite near-constant police pursuit and several roadblocks, Bandit, Snowman, Frog and Fred arrive at the Southern Classic with a full trailer of Coors and ten minutes to spare, with Cledus blazing a trail into the grounds with his truck.

Existing facilities on the grounds include: a cinema ; ten private bungalows previously-owned by such people as Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucille Ball, the Marx Brothers, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, and Humphrey Bogart ; an outdoor amphitheater ; a wedding chapel ; the Esther Williams Pool and Cabanas ; the Hill Auditorium ; several ballrooms ; a guard house ; tennis courts ; and, the Hacienda.

He is the patron of the Lotus Sūtra and, according to the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva.

Curly hair, high cheekbones, wide gnomelike mouth, a pair of drummer's blocky hands, and a body that said well, maybe I can wrestle you for ten minutes -- but then I'm finished.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.

In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.

Should the referee count to ten, then the knocked-down boxer is ruled " knocked out " ( whether unconscious or not ) and the other boxer is ruled the winner by knockout ( KO ).

It has been estimated that in England in the 18th century carrying bricks by horse and cart for ten miles ( 16 km ) over the poor roads then existing could more than double their price.

In 1877 a green silhouette was used to create a ghostlike image ; ten years later a trick chair was used to allow an actor to appear in the middle of the scene, and then again from the midst of the audience.

The longest lasting of the ten governments between 1924 and 1932 was that of General Carlos Ibáñez, who briefly held power in 1925 and then again between 1927 and 1931 in what was a de facto dictatorship.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

In " A Witch Shall be Born ", Conan fights armed men until he is overwhelmed, captured, and crucified, and goes a night and a day without water, but still possesses the strength to pull the nails from his feet, then to hoist himself into a horse's saddle and ride ten miles.

After that, censuses followed somewhat regularly in 1787, 1801, and 1834, and between 1840 and 1860, the censuses were taken every five years, and then every ten years until 1890.

In the 20th century, censuses were taken every five years from 1901 to 1921, and then every ten years from 1930.

In May 1957 Diem, then President of South Vietnam, made a state visit to the United States for ten days.

The technicians would typically spend ten or so hours to load the files from the DVD to the QuBit, set up the server to play the files, and then set up the projector.

Louis was home schooled for the first ten years of his life: he was then sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire and on to the Royal Naval College, Osborne in May 1913.

After reading a pamphlet by Doctor James Wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with James Manby Gully at Malvern, he stayed there for " some nine or ten weeks ", after which he " continued the system some seven weeks longer under Doctor Weiss, at Petersham ", then again at " Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at Boppart " ( at the former Marienberg Convent at Boppard ), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.

The scaling factor, as a power of ten, is then indicated separately at the end of the number.

They then had a more serious discussion regarding the chances of humans observing faster-than-light travel by some material object within the next ten years, which Teller put at one in a million, but Fermi put closer to one in ten.

In the last ten minutes, veteran striker Uwe Seeler looped a back header over Bonetti to take the game into extra time ; then Gerd Müller smashed home the winner in the added period.

The current era of star formation is expected to continue for up to one hundred billion years, and then the " stellar age " will wind down after about ten trillion to one hundred trillion years ( 10 < sup > 13 </ sup >– 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > years ), as the smallest, longest-lived stars in our astrosphere, tiny red dwarfs, begin to fade.

Later in 409, the West Romans stationed ten thousand Huns in Italy and Dalmatia to fend off Alaric, who then abandoned plans to march on Rome.

His parents died in 86 when Hadrian was ten, and the boy then became a ward of both Trajan and Publius Acilius Attianus ( who was later Trajan ’ s Praetorian Prefect ).