Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones
Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones
Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones (Tib. རྒྱན་དྲུག་མཆོག་གཉིས་, Wyl. rgyan drug mchog gnyis) — great Indian commentators on the Buddha’s teachings.
Six Ornaments
Nagarjuna, Tib. ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་,
Aryadeva, Tib. འཕགས་པ་ལྷ་,
Asanga, Tib. ཐོགས་མེད་,
Vasubandhu, Tib. དབྱིག་གཉེན་,
Dignaga, Tib. ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་, and
Dharmakirti, Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་གྲགས་པ་,.
Two Supreme Ones
1. According to one way of counting the Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones, this refers to
Gunaprabha, Tib. ཡོན་ཏན་འོད་, and
Shakyaprabha, Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་འོད་.
2. According to another tradition, this refers to
Nagarjuna, Tib. ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་, the founder of the tradition of Profound View and
Asanga, Tib. ཐོགས་མེད་, the founder of the tradition of Vast Conduct.