Seven heroic buddhas

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The Seven Heroic Buddhas (Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་དཔའ་བོ་བདུན་, Wyl. sangs rgyas dpa' bo bdun or sangs rgyas rabs bdun) are, according to the Basic vehicle: Buddha Shakyamuni, who attained enlightenment during this present kalpa, and the six buddhas who preceded him, each one presiding over a Fortunate Aeon.

  1. Vipashyin (རྣམ་གཟིགས་, rnam gzigs)
  2. Shikhin (གཙུག་གཏོར་ཅན་, gtsug gtor can)
  3. Vishvabhukra (ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ་, thams cad skyob)
  4. Krakucchandra (ཁོར་བ་འཇིག་, ‘khor ba ‘jig)
  5. Kanakamuni (གསེར་ཐུབ་, gser thub)
  6. Kashyapa (འོད་སྲུང་, ‘od srung)
  7. Shakyamuni (ཤཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་, shakya thub pa)