Four types of guest

Four types of guest (Tib. མགྲོན་པོ་བཞི་, drönpo shyi, or Tib. མགྲོན་ཚན་བཞི་, drön tsen shyi; Wyl. mgron po bzhi or mgron tshan bzhi) —

guests invited out of respect–the Three Jewels (Tib. དཀོན་མཆོག་སྲི་ཞུའི་མགྲོན་, könchok sishyü drön; Wyl.dkon mchog sri zhu'i mgron)
guests invited on account of their qualities–the protectors (Tib. མགོན་པོ་ཡོན་ཏན་གྱི་མགྲོན་, gönpo yönten gyi drön; Wyl. mgon po yon tan gyi mgron)
guests of the six classes invited out of compassion (Tib. འགྲོ་དྲུག་སྙིང་རྗེའི་མགྲོན་, dro druk nyingjé drön; Wyl. 'gro drug snying rje'i mgron)
guests to whom we owe karmic debts (Tib. གདོན་གེགས་ལན་ཆགས་ཀྱི་མགྲོན་, dön gek lenchak kyi drön; Wyl. gdon gegs lan chags kyi mgron)

"The rare and supreme ones, the ‘Jewels’, who are the guests invited out of respect, consist of the dharmakaya, sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya buddhas, as well as the Dharma and the sangha, and all the gurus, yidam deities, dakinis and so on.

"The protectors, who are the guests invited on account of their qualities, are the eight mahadevas, the eight great nagas, the eight great rahus, the Four Great Kings, the nine great terrifying ones, the ten guardians of the directions, the twenty-eight constellations, and the seventy-five glorious protectors of pure abodes, together with their retinues, their attendants, attendants’ attendants, and families, and all positive forces, local deities and guardians.

"The six classes of beings, who are the guests invited out of compassion, consist of the gods, human beings, demi-gods, animals, pretas, hell beings and so on.

"Obstructing forces, who are the guests to whom we owe karmic debts, include all karmic creditors, such as the 80,000 types of obstructing forces, headed by Vinayaka, king of obstacle makers, as well as the fifteen great döns who strike children, and Hariti with her five hundred children."