One says that the first nine characters correspond to the nine assemblies ( of the Hua － yen ching ) , and the fifty － four corners to the fifty － five good teachers , for the first and the last of the list ( of teachers ) , Mañjušrî , is simply one person , and so it is called fifty － four . The 210 characters are the 200 characters of the seventh assembly , “ Divorced from the world " chapter , and so it has 200 . One ( ten ) is that each single question ( therein ) has ten answers , and so it says one ten . But the meaning of this diagram seal depends on what is written in the Chin translation of this ( Hua － yen ) sutra , so it is wrong to divide it into nine assemblies . The fifty － four corners and 210 characters are the coincidental numbers of the corners and characters , and do not indicate anything else .