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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

Vajravarahi (Dorje Pakmo/རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོ)

Vajravarahi the root of all emanations of dakinis. This dakini is of high status, considered to be a Female Buddha. Mantra OM VAJRA BEROTZANIYE HUM HUM PHAT SOHA

Vajrakilaya (Dorje Phurba/རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་བ)

Vajrakilaya is a Yidam deity. Yidam the tutelary or chosen meditation deity, which is the root of spiritual accomplishment. Their practice is famous for being the most powerful for removing obstacles, destroying the forces hostile to compassion and purifying the spiritual pollution so prevalent in this age

Vajrapani (Chakna Dorjee/ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ)

Vajrapani (Chakna Dorjee/ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ) is a member of eight great Bodhisattva and lord of three family. He is represented in blue colour and holding vajra(thunderbolt) in his right hand. He is a powerful protector and remover of inner and outer obstacles.