Six Ornaments and Two Supreme Ones
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Buddha with the 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.
