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Eight great bodhisattvas

Bodhisattva are someone who has aroused Bodhichitta(Wishing to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings). 1. Manjushri(འཇམ་དཔལ་) - Wisdom 2. Avalokiteshvara(སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་) - Compassion 3. Vajrapani(ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་) - Power 4. Maitreya(བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་) - Love/Future Buddha 5. Kshitigarbha(ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་) - Richness and fertility of the land 6. Akashagarbha(ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་) - Perfect ability to purify transgressions 7. Sarvanivaranavishkambhin(སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ་) - Purifies wrong-doing and obstructions 8. Samantabhadra(ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་) - Displays special expertise in making offerings and prayers of aspiration