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(12) No doubt that of Sakyamuni himself.
(13) A Bodhisattva is one whose essence has become intelligence; a Being who will in some future birth as a man (not necessarily or usually the next) attain to Buddhahood.

The name does not include those Buddhas who have not yet attained to pari-nirvana.

The symbol of the state is an elephant fording a river.

Popularly, its abbreviated form P'u-sa is used in China for any idol or image; here the name has its proper signification.
(14) {.} {.}, "all the thien," or simply "the thien" taken as plural.
But in Chinese the character called thien {.} denotes heaven, or Heaven, and is interchanged with Ti and Shang Ti, meaning God.

With the Buddhists it denotes the devas or Brahmanic gods, or all the inhabitants of the six devalokas.