Quotes About Maitreya

In northwest India around the third century C.E., the belief grew that Maitreya would be the next buddha, following ??kyamuni. At present accumulating religious training as a bodhisattva, Maitreya is the focus of hope of those born too late to enjoy ??kyamuni's salvation. All the same, he is not due to appear until 5,670,000,000 years after ??kyamuni's death.

Buddha Maitreya, whose name means "loving kindness

Then Maitreya Bodhisattva thought: "Now the World-Honored One has displayed a marvelous sign. But what is the cause or reason for this auspicious sign? Now that the Buddha, the World-Honored One, has entered into concentration, whom can I ask about such inconceivable and unprecedented wonders? And who will be able to answer?

The rebel groups were loosely coordinated, inspired by millenarian hopes for the coming of the Maitreya Buddha and Manichaean-tinged beliefs about the imminent arrival of a saviour, a prince of light, who would defeat the powers of darkness.