He is dressed in the clothes of either a bhikṣu (monk) or Indian royalty. Maitreya is typically pictured seated, with either both feet on the ground or crossed at the ankles, on a throne, waiting for his time. They will have torn the net of the passions, they will manage to enter into trances, and theirs will be an abundance of joy and happiness, for they will lead a holy life under Maitreya's guidance. No longer will they regard anything as their own, they will have no possession, no gold or silver, no home, no relatives! But they will lead the holy life of oneness under Maitreya's guidance.
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Will lose their doubts, and the torrents of their cravings will be cut off: free from all misery they will manage to cross the ocean of becoming and, as a result of Maitreya's teachings, they will lead a holy life. It implies that he is a teacher of meditative trance sādhanā and states that gods, men and other beings: One mention of the prophecy of Maitreya is in the Maitreyavyākaraṇa. The religious belief of Maitreya apparently developed around the same time as that of Amitābha, as early as the 3rd century CE. An example is the stone sculpture found in the Qingzhou cache dedicated to Maitreya in 529 CE as recorded in the inscription (currently in the Qingzhou Museum, Shandong). indicating both that the distinction between the two had not yet been drawn and that their respective iconographies had not yet been firmly set". In 4th to 6th-century China, "Buddhist artisans used the names Shakyamuni and Maitreya interchangeably. In the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, in the first centuries CE in northern India, Maitreya was the most popular figure to be represented along with Gautama Buddha (often called Śākyamuni "sage of the Shakya"). This leads scholar Richard Gombrich to conclude that either the whole sutta is apocryphal or that it has at least been tampered with. Most of the Buddha's sermons are presented as having been presented in answer to a question, or in some other appropriate context, but this sutta has a beginning and ending in which the Buddha is talking to monks about something totally different. The Pali form Metteyya is mentioned in the Cakkavatti-Sīhanāda Sutta ( Digha Nikaya 26) of the Pāli Canon, and also in chapter 28 of the Buddhavamsa. The name Maitreya is derived from the Sanskrit word maitrī "friendship", which is in turn derived from the noun mitra "friend". 9.1 Pre-Maitreyan Buddhist messianic rebellions.7 Nichiren Buddhism and Maitreya as metaphor.5 Activity of Maitreya in the current age.