Dizang’s Connections

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Member of

• Four Great Bodhisattvas

  The Four Great Bodhisattvas of Chinese Buddhism comprise Guanyin, Wenshu, Puxian, and Dìzàng, each presiding over one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains.

Equivalent to

• Jizō(Japanese),Ksitigarbha(Buddhist)

  Ksitigarbha, Dìzàng, and Jizō are the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese forms of the Earth Treasury Bodhisattva, transmitted through the spread of Mahayana Buddhism across East Asia.

Associated with

• Diyu

  Dizang vowed not to attain buddhahood until every hell is emptied, descending into Dìyù with his monk's staff and luminous pearl to comfort and liberate suffering souls from the Ten Courts of punishment.

• Rulai Fozu

  Rulai Fozu entrusted Dìzàng with saving all sentient beings in the six realms during the interval between his own parinirvana and the future coming of Maitreya.

• Yanluo Wang

  Dizang moves through Yanluo Wang's courts of judgment, advocating for the condemned and offering them the dharma. While Yanluo Wang judges the dead according to karma, Dizang works to shorten their sentences through his boundless merit.