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| + | '''[[Eight vidyadharas]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རིག་འཛིན་བརྒྱད་]]}}, ''[[rigdzin gyé]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[rig 'dzin brgyad]]'') — eight [[Indian]] [[masters]] of [[awareness]] ([[vidyadhara]]) who were entrusted with the [[Kagyé]] teachings: | ||
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| + | *[[Vimalamitra]], {{BigTibetan|[[དྲི་མེད་བཤེས་གཉེན་]]}}, | ||
| + | *[[Humkara]], {{BigTibetan|[[ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་]]}}, | ||
| + | *[[Mañjushrimitra]], {{BigTibetan|[[འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན་]]}}, | ||
| + | *[[Nagarjuna]], {{BigTibetan|[[ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་]]}}, | ||
| + | *[[Prabhahasti]], {{BigTibetan|[[འོད་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་]]}}, | ||
| + | *[[Dhanasamskrita]], {{BigTibetan|[[ནོར་གྱི་ལེགས་སྦྱར་]]}}, | ||
| + | *[[Rambuguhya-Devachandra]], {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷའི་ཟླ་བ་]]}}, and | ||
| + | *[[Shantigarbha]], {{BigTibetan|[[ཞི་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་]]}}. | ||
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| + | Sometimes [[Padmasambhava]] is added as a ninth, or even as part of the eight in place of [[Prabahasti]]. | ||
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| + | ==The [[Eight Vidyadharas]] and the [[Kagyé]]== | ||
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| + | |+According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]: | ||
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| + | ! [[Master]]!! [[Deity]]!! Casket | ||
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| + | | [[Vimalamitra]] | ||
| + | | [[Chemchok]] || {{Wiki|gold}} | ||
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| + | | [[Humkara]] | ||
| + | | [[Yangdak]] || {{Wiki|silver}} | ||
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| + | | [[Mañjushrimitra]] | ||
| + | | [[Yamantaka]] || {{Wiki|iron}} | ||
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| + | | [[Nagarjuna]] | ||
| + | | [[Hayagriva]] || {{Wiki|copper}} | ||
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| + | | [[Padmasambhava]] | ||
| + | | [[Vajrakilaya]] || {{Wiki|turquoise}} | ||
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| + | | [[Dhanasamskrita]] | ||
| + | | [[Mamo Bötong]] || [[rhinoceros]] horn | ||
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| + | | [[Rambuguhya]] | ||
| + | | [[Jikten Chötö]] || [[agate]] | ||
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| + | | [[Shantigarbha]] | ||
| + | | [[Möpa Drakngak]] || Zi stone | ||
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| + | ==In the [[Mandala]] of [[Rigdzin Düpa]]== | ||
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| + | The [[eight vidyadharas]] appear as follows in the [[mandala]] of [[Rigdzin Düpa]] (together with the associated [[deities]] of [[Kagyé]]): | ||
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| + | * [[East]] - [[Humkara]] - [[Yangdak Heruka]] | ||
| + | * [[South]] - [[Manjushrimitra]] - [[Yamantaka]] | ||
| + | * [[West]] - [[Nagarjuna]] - [[Hayagriva]] | ||
| + | * [[North]] - [[Prabhahasti]] - [[Vajrakilaya]] | ||
| + | * South-east - [[Dhanasamskrita]] - [[Mamo Bötong]] | ||
| + | * South-west - [[Vimalamitra]] - [[Düdtsi Yönten]] | ||
| + | * North-west- [[Rombhuguhya]] - [[Jikten Chötö]] | ||
| + | * North-east - [[Shantigarbha]] - [[Möpa Drakngak]] | ||
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| + | ==Gallery== | ||
| + | <gallery>Image:Vimalamitra8.jpg|[[Vimalamitra]] | ||
| + | Image:Shantigarbha.jpg|[[Shantigarbha]] | ||
| + | Image:Rombhuguhya.jpg|[[Rombhuguhya]] | ||
| + | Image:Prabahasti.jpg|[[Prabahasti]] | ||
| + | Image:Nagarjuna8.jpg|[[Nagarjuna]] | ||
| + | Image:Manjushrimitra8.jpg|[[Manjushrimitra]] | ||
| + | Image:Humkara.jpg|[[Humkara]] | ||
| + | Image:Dhanasamskrta.jpg|[[Dhanasamskrta]] | ||
| + | </gallery> | ||
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| + | ==See Also== | ||
| + | *[[A Constant Stream of Blessings|Prayer to the Eight Supreme Vidyadharas of India: “A Constant Stream of Blessings”]] | ||
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[[Eight Vidyadharas]] (''[[rig ‘dzin brgyad]]''). | [[Eight Vidyadharas]] (''[[rig ‘dzin brgyad]]''). | ||
[[Manjushrimitra]], [[Nagarjuna]], [[Hungkara]], [[Vimalamitra]], [[Prabhahasti]], [[Dhana Sanskrita]], [[Shintam Garbha]], and [[Guhyachandra]]. | [[Manjushrimitra]], [[Nagarjuna]], [[Hungkara]], [[Vimalamitra]], [[Prabhahasti]], [[Dhana Sanskrita]], [[Shintam Garbha]], and [[Guhyachandra]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:56, 20 November 2023
Eight vidyadharas (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་བརྒྱད་, rigdzin gyé; Wyl. rig 'dzin brgyad) — eight Indian masters of awareness (vidyadhara) who were entrusted with the Kagyé teachings:
- Vimalamitra, དྲི་མེད་བཤེས་གཉེན་,
- Humkara, ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་,
- Mañjushrimitra, འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན་,
- Nagarjuna, ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་,
- Prabhahasti, འོད་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་,
- Dhanasamskrita, ནོར་གྱི་ལེགས་སྦྱར་,
- Rambuguhya-Devachandra, ལྷའི་ཟླ་བ་, and
- Shantigarbha, ཞི་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་.
Sometimes Padmasambhava is added as a ninth, or even as part of the eight in place of Prabahasti.
The Eight Vidyadharas and the Kagyé
| Master | Deity | Casket |
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| Vimalamitra | Chemchok | gold |
| Humkara | Yangdak | silver |
| Mañjushrimitra | Yamantaka | iron |
| Nagarjuna | Hayagriva | copper |
| Padmasambhava | Vajrakilaya | turquoise |
| Dhanasamskrita | Mamo Bötong | rhinoceros horn |
| Rambuguhya | Jikten Chötö | agate |
| Shantigarbha | Möpa Drakngak | Zi stone |
In the Mandala of Rigdzin Düpa
The eight vidyadharas appear as follows in the mandala of Rigdzin Düpa (together with the associated deities of Kagyé):
- East - Humkara - Yangdak Heruka
- South - Manjushrimitra - Yamantaka
- West - Nagarjuna - Hayagriva
- North - Prabhahasti - Vajrakilaya
- South-east - Dhanasamskrita - Mamo Bötong
- South-west - Vimalamitra - Düdtsi Yönten
- North-west- Rombhuguhya - Jikten Chötö
- North-east - Shantigarbha - Möpa Drakngak
Gallery
See Also
Source
Eight Vidyadharas (rig ‘dzin brgyad).
Manjushrimitra, Nagarjuna, Hungkara, Vimalamitra, Prabhahasti, Dhana Sanskrita, Shintam Garbha, and Guhyachandra.
