Although Bosatsu is a Buddha ranked at high status next to Nyorai, Jizo Bosatsu stepped down from the status with the determination that ' I won't go back to the Bosatsu world unless my wish to relieve all living things comes true,' and he continued travel to relieve unrelieved living things and the souls of young children who died before their parents, walking on foot through Rokudo.
菩薩は如来に次ぐ高い見地に住する仏であるが、地蔵菩薩は「一斉衆生済度の請願を果たさずば、我、菩薩界に戻らじ」との決意でその地位を退し、六道を自らの足で行脚して、救われない衆生、親より先に世を去った幼い子供の魂を救って旅を続ける。