Maitreya

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1. Maitreya - Noun

2. Maitreya - Proper noun

Meaning

the Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama

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Over the last 45 years, Maitreya has pieced together the Japanese landscape in his back garden to feature four connecting ponds with Koi fish, a quaint bridge, towering pine trees and maples. Source: Internet

Two centuries before Buddhism was introduced to Tibet, in the fifth century CE, the Abhidharma teacher Buddhaghoṣa was declared by Sri Lankan elders to be a reincarnation of the bodhisattva Maitreya. Source: Internet

Maitreya (Pali: Metteyya), for example, is mentioned very briefly in the Pali Canon as a Buddha who will come in the distant future. Source: Internet

This and other differences, in particular Steiner's vocal rejection of Leadbeater and Besant 's claim that Jiddu Krishnamurti was the vehicle of a new Maitreya, or world teacher, See Lutyens, Mary (2005). Source: Internet

Dashi-Choiling monastery has commenced a project to restore the temple and the convert sculpture of Maitreya. Source: Internet

ISBN 1-886439-21-4 and the Abhidharma-samuccaya as well as other works, although there are discrepancies between the Chinese and Tibetan traditions concerning which works are attributed to him and which to Maitreya. Source: Internet

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