ABSTRACT
Having first attained All-knowing Awareness, the Bhagavat then saw with it that there are two types of trainees: those who are mainly orientated to teachings involving cognitive objects and those who are mainly orientated to the Profound and Extensive teachings. There are also two types of practice for those trainees: they can engage in practice with the Perfection Method or they can engage in practice with the Mantra Method. There are also two ways of engaging in practice with the Perfection Method: that of those beings who are mainly orientated to practice involving cognitive objects and that of those beings who are mainly orientated to the Profound and Extensive. The Vinaya, the Sutras, the Abhidharma and likewise Mahāyāna Sutras such as the Vīradatta-grhapati and so on, were taught for the sake of those trainees who engage in practice by way of the Perfection Method, and who are mainly orientated to that involving cognitive objects. On the other hand, the Profound and Extensive Sutras such as the GaḤdavyūha, the Daśūmi, the Samādhirā-ja and so forth, (2b) were taught for those trainees who are orientated to the Profound and Extensive.
