[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) › [Maṅgalāṣṭaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka) › [འཕགས་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo) › [The Eight Auspicious Ones](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000) › 2 # འཕགས་པ་བཀྲ་ཤས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2 The Eight Auspicious Ones 2 - **Language:** English ### [2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.2) Āmrapālī’s grove. A Licchavi youth, Superior Skill, went to where the Blessed One was. Upon arriving, he bowed his head at the Blessed One’s feet and addressed the Blessed One with these words: “There are some blessed, thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddhas presently dwelling in fulfillment of their former aspirations. If I hear about those blessed ones, I will venerate them on the crown of my head. By venerating them on the crown of my head, I will not be threatened or harmed by human or nonhuman beings, Blessed One, and when I speak at a royal palace, whatever I say will not be repudiated or overruled under any circumstance. If I remember their names, I will not even dream bad dreams while sleeping, and if I enter into a battle where swords are drawn, those swords will not strike me, and I will be delivered from it safely. I request the blessed, thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha to reveal their names.” Thus requested, the Blessed One said to the Licchavi youth Superior Skill, “Superior Skill, to the east there is a world system called Famous. The thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddha named Pradīparāja resides there. “Superior Skill, to the east there is a world system called Free from Sorrow. The thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddha named Intent on Accomplishing Aims through Steadfast Skill⁹ resides there. “Superior Skill, to the east there is a world system called Blissful. The thus-gone, worthy, perfect buddha named Greatly Renowned for Considering All resides there. “Superior Skill, to the east - [Previous: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.1) - [Next: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.2) · Pramāṇa