- སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག
- skyes bu dam pa bcu drug
- ṣoḍaśasatpuruṣa
- Term
- sixteen excellent men
- སྐྱེས་བུ་དམ་པ་བཅུ་དྲུག
- skyes bu dam pa bcu drug
- ṣoḍaśasatpuruṣa
A list of sixteen bodhisattvas headed by Bhadrapāla, mentioned in many sūtras as present in the audience. Unlike many other great bodhisattvas, they are all householders. Their names are—according to The White Lotus of the Good Dharma (Toh 113): Bhadrapāla, Ratnākara, Susārthavāha, Naradatta, Guhyagupta, Varuṇadatta, Indradatta, Uttaramati, Viśeṣamati, Vardhamānamati, Amoghadarśin, Susaṃprasthita, Suvikrāntavikrāmiṇ, Anupamamati, Sūryagarbha, and Dharaṇīṃdhara.