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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

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