དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད། | Glossary of Terms
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དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
- dngos grub chen po brgyad
- aṣṭamahāsiddhi
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- eight great siddhis
- དངོས་གྲུབ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
- dngos grub chen po brgyad
- aṣṭamahāsiddhi
Eight “ordinary” accomplishments attained through practice: (1) eye medicine (añjana, mig sman); (2) swift-footedness (jaṅghākara, rkang mgyogs); (3) magic sword (khaḍga, ral gri); (4) travel beneath the earth (pātāla, sa ’og spyod); (5) medicinal pills (gulikā, ril bu); (6) travel in the sky (khecara, mkha’ spyod); (7) invisibility (antardhāna, mi snang ba); and (8) elixir (rasāyana, bcud len). (From Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo’s commentary).