འཕགས་པ་སྒྲབ་པ་རྣམ་པར་སལ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས intro.3
The Dhāraṇī of Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin intro.3
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intro.3
Āvaraṇaviṣkambhin is referred to in this short text as both a buddha and a bodhisattva. As a bodhisattva, he is generally associated with the removal of obscuration and evil deeds. He is also one of eight bodhisattvas who appear together in texts from the Guhyasamāja corpus and are referred to as a group in later Tibetan tradition as the “eight close sons” (nye ba’i sras brgyad) of the Buddha Śākyamuni.¹