This Upasaka Dharmadala is an emanation of Amitabha. In India he traveled as the servant of the sixteen arhats. He performed the giving and taking for them [so that they could maintain their monastic discipline], and whatever they needed in terms of service, clothing, food, medicine and so forth he would instantly actualize and offer. Because he is inseparable from the Buddha of Limitless Light, he hold behind him a scripture symbolizing his offering service so that the elder arhats can uphold the three baskets of teachings without them declining until the Exalted Maitreya arrives. The clear tiger stripes curled to the right on his knee are said to have emanated so that he could protect the sixteen Arya Elders from danger of wild animals when they were abiding in the rains retreat on a mountain in China.