Maitreya

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Maitreya

(miˈtreːjə)
n
(Buddhism) the future Buddha
[Sanskrit]
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Noun 1. [画像:Maitreya - the Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama]Maitreya - the Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama
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Collins for instance, believes that the most widespread goal among practising Buddhists is to be reborn in the times of the future Buddha Metteyya (Skt Maitreya) as it is believed that attaining nibbana will be impossible until then (Collins 1982: 151).
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Life-span increases--up to 80,000 years!--with the development of an ethical society, until a future time when a new cakkavatti and then the Buddha Metteyya (Sanskrit Maitreya) eventually arrives.
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Sometimes the subsequent rebirth following the stay in hell is also named, e.g., as a peta, a poor man, or a type of animal, or the impossibility of meeting the future Buddha Metteyya is mentioned.
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Buddhist felicities include nirvana and other forms of felicity--"heavens, earthly paradise, Metteyya's millennium, the Perfect Moral Commonwealth of a Good King" (110).
In Anagata-vamsa, translated by Collins as "History of the Future" (361), the arrival of the Buddha Metteyya brings tremendous joy (373).