བཀའ་བབས་རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།

bka' babs rig 'dzin chen po brgyad བཀའ་བབས་རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།

Eight Great Vidyadhara receivers of the transmissions. (RY)

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Eight Great Vidyadharas, receivers of the transmissions (bka' babs rig 'dzin chen po brgyad - བཀའ་བབས་རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།).

• 1) The receiver of the transmission of Manjushri was Manjushrimitra ('jam dpal bshes gnyen - འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན།), the Vidyadhara of Body.
• 2) The receiver of the transmission of Mighty Padma (pad ma dbang - པད་མ་དབང།) Hayagriva was Nagarjuna (klu sgrub snying po - ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་སྙིང་པོ།), the Vidyadhara of Speech.
• 3) The receiver of the transmission of Vishuddha (yang dag - ཡང་དག།) was Hungchenkara (hung mdzad - ཧུང་མཛད།), the Vidyadhara of Mind.
• 4) The receiver of the transmission of Amrita Medicine (bdud rtsi sman - བདུད་རྩི་སྨན།) was Vimalamitra (dri med bshes gnyen - དྲི་མེད་བཤེས་གཉེན།), the Vidyadhara of Qualities.
• 5) The receiver of the transmission of Kilaya (phur pa - ཕུར་པ།) was Prabhahasti ('od kyi glang po - འོད་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ།), the Vidyadhara of Activity.
• 6) The receiver of the transmission of Botong (rbod gtong - རྦོད་གཏོང།) was Danasanskrit (nor gyi legs sbyar - ནོར་གྱི་ལེགས་སྦྱར།), the Vidyadhara of Mamo.
• 7) The receiver of the transmission of Mopa (dmod pa - དམོད་པ།) was Shintamgarbha (zhi ba'i snying po - ཞི་བའི་སྙིང་པོ།), the Vidyadhara of Fierce Mantra (drag sngags - དྲག་སྔགས།).
• 8) The receiver of the transmission of Loka ('jig rten - འཇིག་རྟེན།) was Guhyachandra (gsang ba'i zla ba - གསང་བའི་ཟླ་བ།), the Vidyadhara of Worship (mchod bstod - མཆོད་བསྟོད།). (RY)