Storybook courtship Pan Te once sculpted a statue depicting Shakyamuni in the period after his ascetic cultivation but prior to enlightenment. The sculpture depicted a figure of skin and bones sitting on the Vajrasana (" seat of enlightenment "), hunched over and pondering the mysteries of heaven and earth.
才子佳人有一回，潘德刻了尊釋迦牟尼佛尚未證悟前的苦行像，瘦骨嶙峋，弓著身子坐在金剛座上，正參思著天象人寰。