Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25645405-20151022202254/@comment-1872728-20151101115551

Keeptfighting wrote: It's like Naruto, who has to enter his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to manifest Kurama. So its most likely that Asura had to use a Chakra Mode to create that Avatar. Maybe Naruto needs to go into Kurama Chakra Mode to manifest a Kurama avatar. Sharingan has the ability to manifest an avatar (Susanoo) without Chakra Mode or Tailed Beasts, so maybe Sage Mode has the ability to manifest an avatar without Chakra Mode or Tailed Beasts as well. Since Asura is not manifesting a sealed thing (Tailed Beasts etc) avatar, he only needs to use his Sage Mode to manifest a weird looking buddha thing.