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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== | ||
+ | {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" | ||
+ | |+According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]: | ||
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+ | ! Master!! Deity!! Casket | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | [[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 | ||
+ | |} | ||
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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”]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{RigpaWiki}} | ||
+ | {{NewSourceBreak}} | ||
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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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[[Category:Vidyadhara]] | [[Category:Vidyadhara]] | ||
[[Category:Mahayoga]] | [[Category:Mahayoga]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Historical Masters]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Eight Vidyadharas]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Indian Masters]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Kagyé]] |
Revision as of 18:43, 23 March 2014
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.