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བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད། | Glossary of Terms
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
byang chub sems dpa' chen po brgyad
aṣṭamahābodhisattva
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- Eight great bodhisattvas
- བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
- byang chub sems dpa' chen po brgyad
- aṣṭamahābodhisattva
The list of the eight may vary according to the source, but it usually includes Mañjuśrī, Avalokiteśvara, Vajrapāṇi, Maitreya, Kṣitigarbha, Ākāśagarbha, Sarvanivaraṇaviṣkambhin, and Samantabhadra.