Eight Close Sons
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
Eight Ordinary Concerns
Tibetan: འཇིག་རྟེན་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་, Wylie: ‘jig rten chos brgyad, Sanskrit: aṣṭalokadharma. The normal preoccupations of unrealized people without a clear spiritual perspective. The eight ordinary (worldly) concerns
Eighty-four mahasiddhas
Tibetan: གྲུབ་ཐོབ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ་རྩ་བཞི་, Wylie: grub thob brgyad cu rtsa, Sanskrit: caturaśītisiddha. Mahasiddha is a term for someone who embodies and cultivates the “siddhi of perfection”, a
