FUGEN-BOSATSU In Japan the bodhisattva Samantabhadra, who will be the final Buddha and at the moment out of his divine compassion is spreading around enlightened wisdom. He is pictured as a young man seated on an elephant, usually white with six tusks, and he carries either a lotus flower or has his hands joined together. Fugen-Bosatsu was a medieval courtesan, who appeared to a monk, to show that Buddhahood was not only reserved strictly for men.