Eight Freedoms; 八有暇; Tibetan: དལ་བ་བརྒྱད (talwa gyed); Wylie: dal ba brgyad; Sanskrit: Astaksana;
Eight Freedoms (Astaksana) are the physical states to avoid so that one is able to learn and practice Buddha Dharma to become enlightened:
not living in three lower realms: hell, hungry ghost and animal realms, not being a long-living god, not having wrong views, not being born in a place without dharma, not having complete faculties, and not being born in an age without buddha.
八有暇是指遠離：地獄、餓鬼、旁生、長壽天、執邪見、生於邊地、喑啞、佛不出世，八種無法修行佛法而得到解脫的狀況。
Synonyms/Additional Terms 同義詞:
八有暇, Eight Freedoms, Astaksana, 閒暇
