[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Sūtras on buddhas, their lands and names](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha) › [Aṣṭabuddhaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo) › [The Eight Buddhas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000) › 7 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7 The Eight Buddhas 7 - **Language:** English ### [7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.7) nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, demigods, humans, nonhumans, or any other type of destruction, unless it is due to the forceful ripening of karma. Even then, they will have those experiences only minimally, not greatly. “In pursuing any kind of mundane or supramundane objective, one should aspire to make virtuous qualities proliferate and not diminish them.” Then the Bhagavān spoke these verses: “Those who remember the names Of those protectors of the world Will completely abandon all inopportune states And quickly go to good rebirths. “Having delighted the buddhas that have appeared, Rousing faith from seeing those teachers, And seeing them also as lamps of the world, They will make auspicious offerings. “For countless millions of eons, Helping beings to abandon saṃsāra, Those whose unobscured eyes behold the guides Will also be purified. “Those who remember the names Of those protectors of the world Will become worthy of the world’s veneration, Wherever those people are born. “Such people will accumulate marvelous physical signs, Will be born into rich households, Will be heroic, and will become generous benefactors, Giving abundantly without miserliness. “If some remember these names, Then for many millions of eons The scent of divine red sandalwood Will arise from their mouths. “If a woman were to hear the names Of those great sages, Then upon abandoning her female attributes She would skillfully become a man. “Those who remember these names Will never see Their fathers, mothers, siblings, Or any friends and relatives suffer. “Those who remember these names, - [Previous: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.6) - [Next: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo.7) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.7) · Pramāṇa