Samantabhadra is the Lord of the Truth in Buddhhism, who represents the practice and meditation of all Buddhas together with shakyamuni and fellow disciple Manjusri he forms the Shakyamuni trinity. He is the patron of the Lotus sutra and, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra, made the ten great vows which are the basis of a bodhisattva. Samantabhadra is most commonly described as a bodhisattva himself, although some esoteric traditions regard him as a primordial Buddha.