Because of this episode, apart from being canonized by the Confucians and Taoists, Kuan Kung also took on the Buddhist names of Chia-Lan Guardian and Sky-Covering Buddha.
也因為這段傳說，關公除了被儒、道兩教奉為神明外，連佛教也封祂為伽藍護法、蓋天古佛。