Kannon Bosatsu, in Buddhism, was depicted as Jiko Shinjin, having been changed by Dokyo during the Ming Dynasty; and there is a character, Jiko Dojin, in a novel "Feng-Shen-Yen-I," which was written at nearly the same time period, and later he became Kannon Bosatsu without any activity as Kannon Bosatsu.
仏教の観音菩薩が明代に道教に取り込まれて慈航真人となったのであるが、ほぼ同じ時代に完成された小説『封神演義』には慈航道人なるキャラクターが登場し、後に観音菩薩になったとしているが、観音菩薩としての活躍は何もない。