Pantheon Buddhist traditions
Eight Great Bodhisattvas
八大菩萨 zh 八大菩薩 ja
Multiple conbinations of eight Great Bodhisattvas in Buddhism
- Members 5 on record
Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each page
The members
Everyone it counts
A pantheon is not a fixed roster — membership is what the records say.
What this means
5 records name this as the whole they are part of. That is what makes it a pantheon here — no class on Wikidata says so consistently, and nobody publishes a machine-readable roster.
So the list is complete in one direction only: a god whose record does not name this pantheon is missing even if every account places them in it — a gap in the data, not in the tradition. Accounts disagree about who belongs, too; the Twelve Olympians are twelve in some lists and fourteen in others.
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MaitreyaFuture Buddha in Buddhist eschatology -
MañjuśrīBodhisattva in Mahāyāna Buddhism, who represents the transcendent wisdom of the Buddhas -
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SamantabhadraIn Buddhism, a bodhisattva associated with practice and meditation -
ĀkāśagarbhaBodhisattva in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Buddhism -
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SarvanivāraṇaviṣkambhinBodhisattva
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
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This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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