View source for Eight Lords of Physicians

The '''Eight Lords of Physicians''' (Tib. སྨན་བླ་བརྒྱད་, ''men la gyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''sman bla brgyad'') aka '''Eight Sugatas who are Lords of Physicians''' (སྨན་བླ་བདེ་གཤེགས་བརྒྱད་, ''men la deshek gyé'', ''sman bla bde gshegs brgyad'') aka '''Eight Sugata-Brothers who are Lords of Physicians''' (སྨན་བླ་བདེ་གཤེགས་མཆེད་བརྒྱད་, ''men la deshek ché gyé'', ''sman bla bde gshegs mched brgyad'') aka '''Eight Brothers who are Lords of Physicians''' (སྨན་བླ་མཆེད་བརྒྱད་, ''men la ché gyé'',  ''sman bla mched brgyad'') — a set of Eight ‘Medicine Buddhas’ appearing in two [[Kriya Tantra]] texts<ref>''The Sūtra Describing in Full the Specific Previous Vows of the Seven Tathāgatas'' (D 503, Skt. ''sapta-tathāgata-pūrva-praṇidhāna-viśeṣa-vistāra-sūtra''; Wyl. ''phags pa de bzhin gshegs pa bdun gyi sngon gyi smon lam gyi khyad par rgyas pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo'') and ''The Incantation of Vaiḍūrya-prabhā'' (D 505, Skt. ''tathāgata-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-nāma-balādhāna-samādhi-dhāraṇī''; Wyl. ''bai DUr+ya'i 'od gyi gzungs'')</ref>. They are the [[Seven Tathagatas]] with the addition of [[Shakyamuni]] Buddha:
# Shakyamuni (Skt. ''Śākyamuni''; Wyl. ''shAkya thub pa'')
# The Glorious King whose Name is Widely Renowned (Skt. ''Suparikīrtitanāmaśrīrāja''; Wyl. ''mtshan legs yongs grags dpal gyi rgyal po'')
# The King who Sounds the Energy of Virtue (Skt. ''Kuśalatejonirghoṣarāja'; Wyl. ''mkhas pa gzi brjid kyi sgra dbyangs kyi rgyal po'')
# The One with the Accomplishment of the Vow of the Radiance of Gold and Fine Stainless Jewels (Skt. ''Suvarṇabhadravimalaratnaprabhāsavratasiddhi''; Wyl. ''gser bzang dri med rin chen snang brtul zhugs pa'')
# The One without Anguish and with Supreme Glory (Skt. ''Aśokottamaśrī''; Wyl. ''mya ngan med mchog dpal'')
# The Roaring One with an Ocean of Dharma-Renown (Skt. ''Dharmakīrtisāgaraghoṣa''; Wyl. ''chos sgrags rgya mtsho’i dbyang'')
# The King who is an Ocean of Dharma with the Best of Minds, Mastery, and Super-Knowledge (Skt. ''Dharmasāgarāgramativikrīḍitābhijñārāja''; Wyl. ''chos rgya mtsho mchog gi blos rnam par rol bar mngon par mkhyen pa’i rgyal po'')
# The Master of Medicine with the Radiance of Beryl aka the '[[Buddha of Medicine]]' (Skt. ''Bhaiṣajyaguruvaiḍūryaprabha''; Wyl. ''sman gyi bla bai dū rya’i ’od'')

==References==
<small><references/></small>

[[Category: Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category: Tibetan Medicine]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]
[[Category: 08-Eight]]