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Eight vidyadharas (Tib. རིག་འཛིན་བརྒྱད་, rigdzin gyé; Wyl. rig 'dzin brgyad) — eight Indian masters of awareness (vidyadhara) who were entrusted with the Kagyé teachings:

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• Vimalamitra, <big>དྲི་མེད་བཤེས་གཉེན་</big>,
• Humkara, <big>ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་</big>,
• Mañjushrimitra, <big>འཇམ་དཔལ་བཤེས་གཉེན་</big>,
• Nagarjuna, <big>ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་</big>,
• Prabhahasti, <big>འོད་ཀྱི་གླང་པོ་</big>,
• Dhanasamskrita, <big>ནོར་གྱི་ལེགས་སྦྱར་</big>,
• Rambuguhya-Devachandra, <big>ལྷའི་ཟླ་བ་</big>, and
• Shantigarbha, <big>ཞི་བའི་སྙིང་པོ་</big>.

Sometimes Padmasambhava is added as a ninth, or even as part of the eight in place of Prabahasti.

The Eight Vidyadharas and the Kagyé