Klong chen pa mentions the mchog brgyad in his discussion of treatises (bstan bcos) based on the Buddha word and the authors who composed them. The eight supreme ones are Nāgārjuna, Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Dharmakīrti and Guṇaprabha (ie. the rgyan drug) plus Āryadeva and Candragomin.