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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: | '''[[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་]]}}, | *[[Vimalamitra]], {{BigTibetan|[[དྲི་མེད་བཤེས་གཉེན་]]}}, | ||
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*[[Rambuguhya-Devachandra]], {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷའི་ཟླ་བ་]]}}, and | *[[Rambuguhya-Devachandra]], {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷའི་ཟླ་བ་]]}}, and | ||
*[[Shantigarbha]], {{BigTibetan|[[ཞི་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་]]}}. | *[[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]]. | Sometimes [[Padmasambhava]] is added as a ninth, or even as part of the eight in place of [[Prabahasti]]. | ||
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|+According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]: | |+According to [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]: | ||
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! [[Master]]!! [[Deity]]!! Casket | ! [[Master]]!! [[Deity]]!! Casket | ||
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| [[Chemchok]] || {{Wiki|gold}} | | [[Chemchok]] || {{Wiki|gold}} | ||
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| [[Humkara]] | | [[Humkara]] | ||
| [[Yangdak]] || {{Wiki|silver}} | | [[Yangdak]] || {{Wiki|silver}} | ||
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| [[Mañjushrimitra]] | | [[Mañjushrimitra]] | ||
| [[Yamantaka]] || {{Wiki|iron}} | | [[Yamantaka]] || {{Wiki|iron}} | ||
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| [[Nagarjuna]] | | [[Nagarjuna]] | ||
| [[Hayagriva]] || {{Wiki|copper}} | | [[Hayagriva]] || {{Wiki|copper}} | ||
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| [[Padmasambhava]] | | [[Padmasambhava]] | ||
| [[Vajrakilaya]] || {{Wiki|turquoise}} | | [[Vajrakilaya]] || {{Wiki|turquoise}} | ||
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| [[Mamo Bötong]] || [[rhinoceros]] horn | | [[Mamo Bötong]] || [[rhinoceros]] horn | ||
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| [[Rambuguhya]] | | [[Rambuguhya]] | ||
| [[Jikten Chötö]] || [[agate]] | | [[Jikten Chötö]] || [[agate]] | ||
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| [[Shantigarbha]] | | [[Shantigarbha]] | ||
| [[Möpa Drakngak]] || Zi stone | | [[Möpa Drakngak]] || Zi stone | ||
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==In the [[Mandala]] of [[Rigdzin Düpa]]== | ==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]]): | The [[eight vidyadharas]] appear as follows in the [[mandala]] of [[Rigdzin Düpa]] (together with the associated [[deities]] of [[Kagyé]]): | ||
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
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See Also
Source
Eight Vidyadharas (rig ‘dzin brgyad).
Manjushrimitra, Nagarjuna, Hungkara, Vimalamitra, Prabhahasti, Dhana Sanskrita, Shintam Garbha, and Guhyachandra.
