Stages of Compassion in Mahayana

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In ~30 years of (western) Buddhism I haven't come across "four stages of compassion". However, there are:

the four Brahmaviharas and
five stages of cultivating compassion, introduced by Buddhaghosa in the Visuddhimagga and explained for example in Wildmind.

For "great compassion" maybe see Mahakaruna. The Indians tend to put a "maha" before a word to mark the term as informed by the experience of liberation.

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