[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) › 8 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8 The Eight Buddhas 8 - **Language:** English ### [8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.8) Such individuals and their close ones Will be born in the world On jewel lotuses with millions of petals. “Those who remember these names Will be able to traverse through space To all the buddha realms And behold the pure fields of the buddhas, “The protectors of the world. In the presence of the world protectors, They will listen to the profound Dharma And will not squander whatever they have heard. “For those who remember these names, Evil demons Along with the host of negative forces Will never have a chance to harm them. “Those who remember these names Will not be killed by weapons, Or by poison or fire. Kings and thieves will be unable to harm them. “No gods, nāgas, yakṣas, Gandharvas, or mahoragas Will have any chance To cause them harm. “These buddhas are supreme human beings. They are the essence of glory, thunderous victors. Having become learned and conscientious, What wise person would not remember their names? “Those who hear these names of all the world protectors And hear them in the proper manner Will gain courage and great insight by hearing the names of these renowned ones. They will become buddhas, supreme humans in the world.” When the Bhagavān had spoken these words, Venerable Śāriputra and the entire retinue, along with the world with its gods, humans, demigods, and gandharvas, rejoiced and praised what the Bhagavān had said. Colophon It was translated and finalized by the Indian preceptors Jinamitra and Surendrabodhi and by the great editor-translator Bandé Yeshé Dé. The text contains ninety-one stanzas.⁵ - [Previous: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.7) - [Next: notes.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.notes.1) ## 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.8) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.astabuddhaka*bo~en-84000.8) · Pramāṇa