The Jade Emperor appealed to Rulai Fozu for help when celestial armies failed to subdue Sun Wukong, and the Buddha trapped the Monkey King under Five Elements Mountain.
Rulai Fozu presides over Lingshan from his lotus throne, surrounded by bodhisattvas, arhats, and heavenly guardians, dispensing the dharma and receiving pilgrims who have journeyed to the sacred mountain to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures.
Gautama Buddha, known as Rulai Fozu in Chinese Buddhism and as the ninth avatar of Vishnu in Hindu tradition, represents the same historical-mythological figure transmitted across three distinct religious traditions.
In the Huayan triad, Puxian and Wenshu flank Rulai Fozu as his chief attendants — Wenshu embodying wisdom and Puxian embodying practice, the twin pillars on which the Buddha's teaching rests.
Rulai Fozu spoke to Śāriputra of a Buddha dwelling in the west, ten trillion lands away, whose light and life are without measure — Amituofo, the Buddha of Infinite Light — and urged all beings to aspire to rebirth in his Western Pure Land.
Rulai Fozu bestowed upon Bai Long Ma the title of Naga of the Eight Heavenly Dragons upon the successful completion of the pilgrimage, restoring the white dragon horse to his true dragon form atop the Huabianting pillar.
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.
Rulai Fozu dispatched Guanyin to the Eastern Lands to find a pilgrim worthy of retrieving the Buddhist scriptures, initiating the events of the Journey to the West.
Rulai Fozu bestowed upon Sha Wujing the title of Golden-Bodied Arhat upon the successful completion of the pilgrimage to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures.
Rulai Fozu trapped Sun Wukong under Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years after the Monkey King's rebellion against Heaven.
Xuanzang is the reincarnation of Golden Cicada, a disciple of Rulai Fozu who was banished for inattention, and completes the pilgrimage to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from the Buddha at Vulture Peak.
Rulai Fozu granted Zhu Bajie the title Cleanser of the Altars upon the successful completion of the pilgrimage to retrieve the Buddhist scriptures.
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