Tibetan: ཉེ་བའི་སྲས་བརྒྱད།, Wylie: nye ba’i sras brgyad, Sanskrit: aṣṭa utaputra.
Also known as Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Sanskrit: aṣṭamahābodhisattva). The main bodhisattvas in the retinue of Buddha Shakyamuni within the Sanskrit Mahayana tradition.
The Eight Close Sons are: