His mother also is to be reborn as Buddha.
(21) There are six (sometimes increased to ten) paramitas, "means of passing to nirvana:--Charity; morality; patience; energy; tranquil contemplation; wisdom (prajna); made up to ten by use of the proper means; science; pious vows; and force of purpose.

But it is only prajna which carries men across the samsara to the shores of nirvana." Eitel, p.

90.
(22) According to Eitel (pp.

71, 72), A famous Bodhisattva, now specially worshipped in Shan-se, whose antecedents are a hopeless jumble of history and fable.

Fa-Hsien found him here worshipped by followers of the mahayana school; but Hsuan-chwang connects his worship with the yogachara or tantra-magic school.