eight great charnel grounds

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Eight Great Charnel Grounds - དུར་ཁྲོད་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད། (dur khrod chen po brgyad):

  1. Cool Grove, Sitavana - ༺བསིལ་བ་ཚལ།༻(bsil ba tshal), in the east.
  2. Perfected in Body - ༺སྐུ་ལ་རྫོགས།༻(sku la rdzogs) to the south.
  3. Lotus Mound - ༺པད་མ་བརྩེགས།༻(pad ma brtsegs) to the west.
  4. Lanka Mound - ༺ལན་ཀ་བརྩེགས།༻(lan ka brtsegs) to the north.
  5. Spontaneously Accomplished Mound - ༺ལྷུན་གྲུབ་བརྩེགས།༻(lhun grub brtsegs) to the south-east.
  6. Display of Great Secret - ༺གསང་ཆེན་རོལ་པ།༻(gsang chen rol pa) to the south-west.
  7. Pervasive Great Joy - ༺ཧེ་ཆེན་བརྡལ་བ།༻(he chen brdal ba) to the north-west.
  8. World Mound - ༺འཇིག་རྟེན་བརྩེགས།༻('jig rten brtsegs) to the north-east.

There are also numerous other lists of charnel grounds.