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The '''eight ordinary accomplishments''' or '''[[siddhi]]s''' (Skt. ''aṣṭasādhāraṇasiddhi''; Tib. ཐུན་མོང་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྒྱད་, [[Wyl.]] ''thun mong gi dngos grub brgyad'') are, | The '''eight ordinary accomplishments''' or '''[[siddhi]]s''' (Skt. ''aṣṭasādhāraṇasiddhi''; Tib. ཐུན་མོང་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྒྱད་, ''tünmong gi ngödrub gyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''thun mong gi dngos grub brgyad'') are, | ||
# The '''siddhi of celestial realm''' is the ability to dwell in celestial realms while still alive. | # The '''siddhi of celestial realm''' is the ability to dwell in celestial realms while still alive. | ||
# The '''siddhi of the sword''' (Skt. ''khaḍgasiddhi''; Tib. རལ་གྲིའི་དངོས་གྲུབ་, Wyl. ''ral gri'i dngos grub'') is the ability to overcome any hostile army. | # The '''siddhi of the sword''' (Skt. ''khaḍgasiddhi''; Tib. རལ་གྲིའི་དངོས་གྲུབ་, Wyl. ''ral gri'i dngos grub'') is the ability to overcome any hostile army. | ||
# The '''siddhi of the pill''' (Tib. རིལ་བུ་, Wyl. ''ril bu'') is the ability to become invisible by blessing pills and holding them in your hand; | # The '''siddhi of the pill''' (Tib. རིལ་བུ་, Wyl. ''ril bu'') is the ability to become invisible by blessing pills and holding them in your hand; | ||
# With the '''siddhi of fleet-footedness''' (Tib. རྐང་མགྱོགས་, Wyl. ''rkang mgyogs''), by wearing boots you have blessed, you can walk around a lake in an instant; | # With the '''siddhi of fleet-footedness''' (Skt. ''pādukāsiddhi''; Tib. རྐང་མགྱོགས་, Wyl. ''rkang mgyogs''), by wearing boots you have blessed, you can walk around a lake in an instant; | ||
# With the '''vase siddhi''' you can create a vessel that makes anything you put inside it, food or money for example, inexhaustible. | # With the '''vase siddhi''' you can create a vessel that makes anything you put inside it, food or money for example, inexhaustible. | ||
# The '''siddhi of yaksha''' is the power to make [[yaksha]]s your servants. They then follow your orders and accomplish the work of a million people in a single night. | # The '''siddhi of yaksha''' is the power to make [[yaksha]]s your servants. They then follow your orders and accomplish the work of a million people in a single night. | ||
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The eight ordinary accomplishments or siddhis (Skt. aṣṭasādhāraṇasiddhi; Tib. ཐུན་མོང་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྒྱད་, tünmong gi ngödrub gyé, Wyl. thun mong gi dngos grub brgyad) are,
- The siddhi of celestial realm is the ability to dwell in celestial realms while still alive.
- The siddhi of the sword (Skt. khaḍgasiddhi; Tib. རལ་གྲིའི་དངོས་གྲུབ་, Wyl. ral gri'i dngos grub) is the ability to overcome any hostile army.
- The siddhi of the pill (Tib. རིལ་བུ་, Wyl. ril bu) is the ability to become invisible by blessing pills and holding them in your hand;
- With the siddhi of fleet-footedness (Skt. pādukāsiddhi; Tib. རྐང་མགྱོགས་, Wyl. rkang mgyogs), by wearing boots you have blessed, you can walk around a lake in an instant;
- With the vase siddhi you can create a vessel that makes anything you put inside it, food or money for example, inexhaustible.
- The siddhi of yaksha is the power to make yakshas your servants. They then follow your orders and accomplish the work of a million people in a single night.
- The siddhi of the elixir (Skt. rasasiddhi) gives you a lifespan as long as the sun and the moon, the strength of an elephant, the beauty of a lotus, and makes you feel as light as cotton wool whenever you get up from your seat.
- With the siddhi of the balm of magic sight (Skt. añjanasiddhi; Tib. མིག་སྨན་, Wyl. mig sman) you can see things beneath the earth, such as treasures and so on when you apply balm to your eyes.