[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) › intro.2 # འཕགས་པ་བཀྲ་ཤས་བརྒྱད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.2 The Eight Auspicious Ones intro.2 - **Language:** English ### [intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.intro.2) This sūtra belongs to the genre of Mahāyāna literature that emphasizes the transformative power of remembering and contemplating buddhas’ names. In this way it resembles some other short texts found in the same part of the Kangyur such as The Eight Buddhas (Aṣṭabuddhaka, Toh 271),¹ The Ten Buddhas (Daśabuddhaka, ), and The Twelve Buddhas (Dvādaśa­buddhaka, Toh 273, 511, 853).² While these other sūtras appear primarily to elucidate how the practice of remembering and contemplating buddhas’ names leads to the accomplishment of spiritual goals in this and future lives up to the attainment of buddhahood, The Eight Auspicious Ones emphasizes the practice’s worldly benefits. - [Previous: intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.intro.1) - [Next: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.intro.3) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.buddha.mangalastaka*bo~en-84000.intro.2) · Pramāṇa