Although various Bosatsu appear in the Buddhist scriptures and many Bosatsu are painted in the Mandalas, many of them were seldom constructed or made an object of worship as an individual statue.
なお、仏教経典には上記以外にもさまざまな菩薩が登場し、密教の曼荼羅にも多数の菩薩が登場するが、これらの中には、単独での造像や信仰がほとんど見られないものも多数存在する。