Ashtamangala

Ashtamangala or Zhaxi Daggyai (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྟགས་བརྒྱད།, Wylie: bkra-shis rtags-brgyad, ZYPY: Zhaxi Dag'gyä; Chinese: 吉祥八宝, 扎西达杰) are a sacred suite of Eight Auspicious Signs endemic to a number of Dharmic Traditions such as Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The symbols or "symbolic attributes" (Tibetan: ཕྱག་མཚན།, Wylie: phyag-mtshan) are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these attributes, these energetic signatures, point to qualities of enlightened mindstream, but they are the investiture that ornaments these enlightened "qualities" (Sanskrit: guna; Tibetan: ཡོན་ཏན, Wylie: yon tan). Many cultural enumerations and variations of the Ashtamangala are extant.