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| − | [[Image:Bodhisattvass.JPG|thumb|250px|Eight great bodhisattvas from the [[Longchen Nyingtik]] Field of Merit]] | + | [[Image:Bodhisattvass.JPG|thumb|250px|Eight great bodhisattvas from the [[Longchen Nyingtik]] [[Field of Merit]])] |
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| − | '''[[Eight Great Bodhisattvas]]''', or 'Eight Close Sons' (Skt. ''[[aṣṭa utaputra]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཉེ་བའི་སྲས་བརྒྱད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[nye ba'i sras brgyad]]'') — the main [[bodhisattva]]s in the retinue of [[Buddha Shakyamuni]]: | + | '''[[Eight Great Bodhisattvas]]''', or '[[Eight Close Sons]]' (Skt. ''[[aṣṭa utaputra]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཉེ་བའི་སྲས་བརྒྱད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[nye ba'i sras brgyad]]'') — the main [[bodhisattva]]s in the retinue of [[Buddha Shakyamuni]]: |
*[[Mañjushri]], {{BigTibetan|[[འཇམ་དཔལ་]]}} or {{BigTibetan|[[འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་]]}}, | *[[Mañjushri]], {{BigTibetan|[[འཇམ་དཔལ་]]}} or {{BigTibetan|[[འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་]]}}, | ||
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*[[Samantabhadra]], {{BigTibetan|[[ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་]].}} | *[[Samantabhadra]], {{BigTibetan|[[ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་]].}} | ||
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| − | Each fulfils a particular role to help beings. Symbolically they represent the pure state of the [[eight consciousnesses]]. | + | Each fulfils a particular role to help [[beings]]. [[Symbolically]] they represent the [[pure]] [[state]] of the [[eight consciousnesses]]. |
| − | ==Qualities of the Eight Bodhisattvas== | + | ==Qualities of the [[Eight Bodhisattvas]]== |
| − | [[Image:Manjushri.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[bodhisattva]] [[Mañjushri]] | + | [[Image:Manjushri.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[bodhisattva]] [[Mañjushri]])] |
| − | Although the eight bodhisattvas or ‘close sons of the | + | Although the [[eight bodhisattvas]] or ‘close sons of the [[Buddha]]’ all possess the same qualities and [[powers]], each one displays [[perfection]] in a particular area or [[activity]]. |
| − | *[[Manjushri]] embodies [[wisdom]]; | + | *[[Manjushri]] [[embodies]] [[wisdom]]; |
| − | *[[Avalokiteshvara]] embodies [[compassion]]; | + | *[[Avalokiteshvara]] [[embodies]] [[compassion]]; |
*[[Vajrapani]] represents power; | *[[Vajrapani]] represents power; | ||
| − | *[[Kshitigarbha]] increases the richness and fertility of the land; | + | *[[Kshitigarbha]] increases the richness and {{Wiki|fertility}} of the land; |
*[[Sarvanivaranavishkambhin]] purifies wrong-doing and obstructions; | *[[Sarvanivaranavishkambhin]] purifies wrong-doing and obstructions; | ||
| − | *[[Maitreya]] embodies [[love]]; | + | *[[Maitreya]] [[embodies]] [[love]]; |
| − | *[[Samantabhadra]] displays special expertise in making offerings and prayers of aspiration; and | + | *[[Samantabhadra]] displays special expertise in making [[offerings]] and [[prayers]] of [[aspiration]]; and |
| − | *[[Akashagarbha]] has the perfect ability to purify transgressions. | + | *[[Akashagarbha]] has the {{Wiki|perfect}} ability to {{Wiki|purify}} transgressions. |
[[Khenpo Chöga]] says: | [[Khenpo Chöga]] says: | ||
| − | :Among the immeasurable qualities of the Buddha, eight of his foremost qualities manifest as the eight [[bodhisattvas]]: | + | :Among the [[immeasurable]] qualities of the [[Buddha]], eight of his foremost qualities [[manifest]] as the eight [[bodhisattvas]]: |
| − | ::1) the personification of the Buddha’s wisdom (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[ye shes kyi rang gzugs]]'') is [[Bodhisattva]] [[Mañjuśrī]]; | + | ::1) the [[personification of the Buddha’s wisdom]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[ye shes kyi rang gzugs]]'') is [[Bodhisattva]] [[Mañjuśrī]]; |
| − | ::2) the personification of the Buddha’s compassion (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྙིང་རྗེའི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[snying rje’i rang gzug]]s'') appears as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Avalokiteśvara]]; | + | ::2) the [[personification of the Buddha’s compassion]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྙིང་རྗེའི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[snying rje’i rang gzug]]s'') appears as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Avalokiteśvara]]; |
| − | ::3) the personification of the Buddha’s power or capacity (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ནུས་པའི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[nus pa’i rang gzugs]]'') is [[Bodhisattva]] [[Vajrapāṇi]]; | + | ::3) the [[personification of the Buddha’s power or capacity]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ནུས་པའི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[nus pa’i rang gzugs]]'') is [[Bodhisattva]] [[Vajrapāṇi]]; |
| − | ::4) the personification of the Buddha’s | + | ::4) the [[personification of the Buddha’s enlightened activity|activity]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཕྲིན་ལས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[phrin las]]'') is [[Bodhisattva]] [[Maitreya]]; |
| − | ::5) the personification of the Buddha’s | + | ::5) the [[personification of the Buddha’s merit]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བསོད་ནམས་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[bsod nams rang gzugs]]'') arises as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Kṣitigarbha]]; |
| − | ::6) the personification of the Buddha’s qualities (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཡོན་ཏན་གྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[yon tan gyi rang gzugs]]'') appears as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhī]]; | + | ::6) the [[personification of the Buddha’s qualities]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཡོན་ཏན་གྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[yon tan gyi rang gzugs]]'') appears as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhī]]; |
| − | ::7) the personification of the Buddha’s | + | ::7) the [[personification of the Buddha’s blessings]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[byin rlabs kyi rang gzugs]]'') arises as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Ākāśagarbha]]; and |
| − | ::8) the personification of the Buddha’s aspirations (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[smon lam gyi rang gzugs]]'') is manifest as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Samantabhadra]].<ref>In ''Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the | + | ::8) the [[personification of the Buddha’s aspirations]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རང་གཟུགས་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[smon lam gyi rang gzugs]]'') is [[manifest]] as [[Bodhisattva]] [[Samantabhadra]].<ref>{{Nolinking|In ''[[Drops of Nectar]]: [[Khenpo Kunpal's]] Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the bodhisattvas'', www.kunpal.org, vol. 1 p.282}}</ref> |
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
| − | ===In Tibetan=== | + | ===In [[Tibetan]]=== |
| − | *[[Jamgön | + | |
| − | *[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''byang chub sems dpa' chen po nye ba'i sras brgyad kyi rtogs brjod nor bu'i phreng ba'' (Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. | + | {{Nolinking|*[[Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé]], ''nye ba'i sras brgyad kyi rnam thar la bsngags pa bstod chen rgya mtsho rnam bshad'' |
| − | *[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''nye sras brgyad kyi sgrub pa rin chen gter bum'' | + | *[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''byang chub sems dpa' chen po nye ba'i sras brgyad kyi rtogs brjod nor bu'i phreng ba'' (Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. |
| + | *[[Mipham Rinpoche]], ''nye sras brgyad kyi sgrub pa rin chen gter bum''}} | ||
===In English=== | ===In English=== | ||
| − | *[[Jamgön Mipham]], ''A Garland of Jewels'', (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008 | + | {{Nolinking|*[[Jamgön Mipham]], ''[[A Garland of Jewels]]'', (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008}} |
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
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Latest revision as of 14:19, 3 April 2016
[[Image:Bodhisattvass.JPG|thumb|250px|Eight great bodhisattvas from the Longchen Nyingtik Field of Merit)]
Eight Great Bodhisattvas, or 'Eight Close Sons' (Skt. aṣṭa utaputra; Tib. ཉེ་བའི་སྲས་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. nye ba'i sras brgyad) — the main bodhisattvas in the retinue of Buddha Shakyamuni:
- Mañjushri, འཇམ་དཔལ་ or འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་,
- Avalokiteshvara, སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་,
- Vajrapani, ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་,
- Maitreya, བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་,
- Kshitigarbha, ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་ or སའི་སྙིང་པོ,
- Akashagarbha, ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་,
- Sarvanivaranavishkambhin, སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ་, and
- Samantabhadra, ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་.
Each fulfils a particular role to help beings. Symbolically they represent the pure state of the eight consciousnesses.
Qualities of the Eight Bodhisattvas
[[Image:Manjushri.jpg|thumb|250px|The bodhisattva Mañjushri)] Although the eight bodhisattvas or ‘close sons of the Buddha’ all possess the same qualities and powers, each one displays perfection in a particular area or activity.
- Manjushri embodies wisdom;
- Avalokiteshvara embodies compassion;
- Vajrapani represents power;
- Kshitigarbha increases the richness and fertility of the land;
- Sarvanivaranavishkambhin purifies wrong-doing and obstructions;
- Maitreya embodies love;
- Samantabhadra displays special expertise in making offerings and prayers of aspiration; and
- Akashagarbha has the perfect ability to purify transgressions.
Khenpo Chöga says:
- Among the immeasurable qualities of the Buddha, eight of his foremost qualities manifest as the eight bodhisattvas:
- 1) the personification of the Buddha’s wisdom (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. ye shes kyi rang gzugs) is Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī;
- 2) the personification of the Buddha’s compassion (Tib. སྙིང་རྗེའི་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. snying rje’i rang gzugs) appears as Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara;
- 3) the personification of the Buddha’s power or capacity (Tib. ནུས་པའི་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. nus pa’i rang gzugs) is Bodhisattva Vajrapāṇi;
- 4) the activity (Tib. ཕྲིན་ལས་, Wyl. phrin las) is Bodhisattva Maitreya;
- 5) the personification of the Buddha’s merit (Tib. བསོད་ནམས་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. bsod nams rang gzugs) arises as Bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha;
- 6) the personification of the Buddha’s qualities (Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་གྱི་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. yon tan gyi rang gzugs) appears as Bodhisattva Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhī;
- 7) the personification of the Buddha’s blessings (Tib. བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱི་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. byin rlabs kyi rang gzugs) arises as Bodhisattva Ākāśagarbha; and
- 8) the personification of the Buddha’s aspirations (Tib. སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རང་གཟུགས་, Wyl. smon lam gyi rang gzugs) is manifest as Bodhisattva Samantabhadra.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ In Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the bodhisattvas, www.kunpal.org, vol. 1 p.282
Further Reading
In Tibetan
- Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, nye ba'i sras brgyad kyi rnam thar la bsngags pa bstod chen rgya mtsho rnam bshad
- Mipham Rinpoche, byang chub sems dpa' chen po nye ba'i sras brgyad kyi rtogs brjod nor bu'i phreng ba (Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.
- Mipham Rinpoche, nye sras brgyad kyi sgrub pa rin chen gter bum
In English
- Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008
External Links
Source
RigpaWiki:Eight great bodhisattvas
[[Category:Eight Bodhisattvas)
