The Dozen Master is about a Zen Buddhist set upon a journey and enduring task of enlightenment, whilst travelling upon a proverbial path of fulfillment and encounters, in both solving and realizing through his awakenings, that have been influenced by his teachers, and presented to him through the aspects and the embodiments of the precious stones of heaven, as the whole point of the story is to serve as a metaphor, which was always to save the people from the world, and more importantly, the world from the people.