Seven heroic buddhas
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The Seven Heroic Buddhas (Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་དཔའ་བོ་བདུན་ or སངས་རྒྱས་རབས་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.
- Vipashyin (རྣམ་གཟིགས་, rnam gzigs)
- Shikhin (གཙུག་གཏོར་ཅན་, gtsug gtor can)
- Vishvabhukra (ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ་, thams cad skyob)
- Krakucchandra (འཁོར་བ་འཇིག་, ‘khor ba ‘jig)
- Kanakamuni (གསེར་ཐུབ་, gser thub)
- Kashyapa (འོད་སྲུང་, ‘od srung)
- Shakyamuni (ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་, shAkya thub pa)