Accounts about the bodhisattvas and their good deeds often included actions with great stakes, and it is likely that writers meant these accounts as devotional more than exemplary.
Catatan tentang para bodhisatwa adan perbuatan baik mereka seringkali meliputi tindakan-tindakan dengan taruhan-taruhan besar, dan para penulis tampaknya mengartikan catatan tersebut lebih kepada devosional ketimbang eksemplar.