It is considered that it follows Shaka-muni Buddha in the Touriten (Trayastrimsa heaven) and senses the capability of living things each morning in Dhyana (meditation), and that it is a Bosatsu that relieves living things who live in the wheel of life of Rikudo (the six realms of Jigoku-do (Naraka realm, or hell realm) (地獄道), Gaki-do (Preta realm, or hungry ghost realm), (餓鬼道), Chikusho-do (Animal realm) (畜生道), Shura-do (Ashura realm, or realm of demigods) (修羅道), Jin-do (Human realm) (人道) and Ten-do (Deva realm, or realm or blissful state) (天道), while there exists no Buddha in this world after Shaka entered nirvana and before Miroku Bosatsu (Maitreya Bodhisattva) appears, 5670 million years later.
とう利天に在って釈迦仏の付属を受け、毎朝禅定に入りて衆生の機根(性格や教えを聞ける器）を感じ、釈迦の入滅後、56億7000万年後に弥勒菩薩が出現するまでの間、現世に仏が不在となってしまうため、その間、六道（地獄道・餓鬼道・畜生道・修羅道・人道・天道）を輪廻する衆生を救う菩薩であるとされる。