• བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • byang chub sems dpa' chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭa­mahā­bodhisattva
  • Term
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  • eight great bodhisattvas
  • བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
  • byang chub sems dpa' chen po brgyad
  • aṣṭa­mahā­bodhisattva
Definition in this text:

The list of the eight may vary according to the source, but it usually includes Mañjuśrī, Avalokiteśvara, Vajrapāṇi, Maitreya, Kṣitigarbha, Ākāśagarbha, Sarva­nivaraṇa­viṣkambhin, and Samantabhadra.

1 Related glossary entries:

སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ།

  • mahāsattva
  • great being
  • great beings
  • great spiritual hero
  • mahāsattva