Eight Freedoms; 八有暇; Tibetan: དལ་བ་བརྒྱད (talwa gyed); Wylie: dal ba brgyad; Sanskrit: Ashta Vimoksha;
Eight Freedoms ((Ashta Vimoksha) 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。