The book "Bodhisattva Di-zan (Jizo) in China and Japan" - the first work in the field of Buddhology of the famous Dutch orientalist Marinus Willem de Fisser, was written in 1915 and still remains one of the main sources, and in a sense - and reference books for researchers of Japanese Buddhism. It analyzes in detail the genesis of one of the key figures of the Buddhist pantheon - the bodhisattva Kshitigarbha, its place in the Buddhist canon, roles in the Indian, Chinese and Japanese worldview traditions.