Historians have sometimes suggested that his cult may be derived from the Iranian deity Mithra, since his story is not well worked out in early Buddhism. 14Taisho, No. 3:15 PREVIEW Leave This Place. Literally, she who has Brahm. AMV 17 n.2 agrees with NT. 13Winternitz, A History of Indian Literature, p. 272. In , Narthang, 74:96071. the figure of Indra, another mainstay of Brahmic culture, seems to have played an increasingly prominent role in the story over time. [At an assembly] attended by 84,000 people. As the disciples were praying together, flames of fire settled on them, signifying the outpouring of the Holy Spirit . 2,500 years ago Gautama Buddha made a prophecy that at this time would come another great Teacher, a Buddha like Himself, Maitreya by name, who would inspire humanity to create a new and brilliant, golden civilization, based on . Enamored with Ahalys beauty, Indra lures Gautama away from his home and, assuming his form, seduces his unsuspecting wife. 39Majumder (AMV 9) reconstructs the Sanskrit as (these three pools, groves, and gardens) based on the Tibetan (which agrees with NT 960.6), apparently mistaking of (marvelous) for (three), possibly due to the misspelling, , in the NT. From the face of the sky celestial clothes and flowers will fall. Baha'is believe that Baha'u'llah, according "to the Hindus" is "the reincarnation of Krishna.". 64This verse is found only in edition B of the text. Atkinson, David W. Maitreya, the Future Buddha. Religious Studies and Theology; Maitreya, the Future Buddha 9, no. See note 21. Lvi, Sylvain. That Maitreya, the highest of people, accompanied by the 84,000 [followers] will leave to go forth in renunciation. And thus, having heard the doctrine, they will progress in the teaching. , Publications de lInstitut Orientaliste de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve: Universit catholique de Louvain, Institut orientaliste, 1988), The Indian notion of a world-ruling king harkens back to the Veda. believe in the Buddha and his teachings and perform acts of devotion, will sit at the feet of the future Buddha Maitreya, result in a follower being part of Maitreyas retinue, thoughts by placing them on the conqueror, the sage of the kyas, then. Maitreya (Sanskrit) or Metteyya (Pli) is a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. And on that very night when he will set forth in renunciation [of the world], he will indeed attain the other side of enlightenment. The first 24 verses are supplied by the Tibetan, from which Majumder reconstructs the Sanskrit. Maitreya. According to Winternitz, the collection of these birth-stories was even at some point dubbed the Legends of the Bodhisattvaor as he translates The Garland of Great Achievements by the Bodhisattva (bodhisattvvadna).3 For him, the Avadna genre stands evenly with one foot in the Hnayna literature, and the other in that of the Mahyna.4 In short, early examples of these legends are completely within the realm of pre-Great Vehicle Buddhism, while later ones are firmly situated within the established Great Vehicle doctrine. The prjali is a gesture of cupping the hands together and offering them to the person as a sign of respect. The highest of these realms is the oft-mentioned Akaniha Heaven. Moreover there will be pools in that city filled with blue lotuses and white water-lilies, and there will be marvelous parks and forests. See note 20. You beings are impelled by that, and so you have met with me. Lvi (393) follows edition A and the Tibetan, une taille de quatre-vingts longueurs de main, une largeur de vingt mains, le disque du visage moiti moins.Conze (240) has His body is eighty cubits high, and twenty cubits broad.. The word outflows () appears to be in the nominative plural, but this would require the verb to be passive which would be . When translating, I try to be as faithful as possible to original as far as I understand it. The Desire Realm is composed of six sub-realms where beings, primarily motivated by desire, are reborn, either as gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, or hell beings. Conze (239) has and considers their implications in the light of the holy mantras. Moats built by jeweled bricks and arrayed with carpets of red and blue lotuses will be adorned with decorative grasses. (62), Likewise at the forefront of the same number of people,103 Maitreyas father will also104 set forth in renunciation. Section 12.The New Age Index To New Age > Maitreya : . Legends seems the best choice (for now). Maitreya is commonly considered to be the next Buddha to come to this world and has been the focus of an extensive cult throughout Asia at various times. Conze follows suit (240). See note 20. See the next verse. It is found in the canonical literatur of all Buddhist sects (Theravda, Mahyna, Vajrayna), and is accepted by most Buddhists as a statement about an event that will take place when the Dharma will have been forgotten on . 49 (AMV 11), (LH 981.7, NT 961.4). However, the vision of the Prophecy of Maitreya, while containing hints of those elements, is distinctly more limited than those later Great Vehicle epics. 117Reliquary mounds usually containing the relics of the Buddha or a Buddhist saint. (15) [8], Moats built by jeweled bricks and arrayed with carpets of red and blue lotuses will be adorned with decorative grasses.34 (16), They will be completely encircled by seven rings of Tla trees35 that are made of four kinds of jewels and are adorned with lattices of tiny bells. From 1984, at 33 years old, He returned to Nepal, India, and Tibet/China; and in Northern California He established His Planetary Ashram allowing many hundreds of Monasteries to come under His Direct Mastery as Tulku Buddha . 2003 Preview SONG TIME Winteryear. There are a number of Buddhist texts foretelling Maitreya. The text focused on here, as the title makes explicit, concerns the prophecy of the future enlightenment of the Bodhisattva Maitreya. Maitreya is a bodhisattva who in the Buddhist tradition is to appear on Earth, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma. Lvi apparently translates this as plus de pchs (without sins) (Lvi 396). heaven, awaiting his last rebirth when the time is ripe. See the next verse. Gilgit Manuscripts. 47The Sanskrit editions begin with this verse. In the Array of Stalks Stra Maitreya is third to last of 52 teachers Sudhana meets, just before Majur and Samantabhadra. Tibetan has when one thoroughly believes in (, LH 990.7, NT 969.4). 128Tibetan formally closes the quote with which is not in the Sanskrit and resumes following the Sanskrit (LH 988.1, NT 967.2). Edited by Alex Wayman. Once he renounces worldly life, it takes Maitreya only a day to achieve enlightenment. For the sake of practice, I refrained from using Lvis translation until I had made a first draft and rarely referred to Conze at all. 139The verb here () is singular and at odds with the plural subject. 19). I have decided to retranslate it mainly in order to refresh and practice my woefully inadequate knowledge of Sanskrit but also with the motivation to provide a full, fresh English translation of this treatise for faith-based Buddhism. 31Roughly, 100 miles by 60 miles. However, I see nothing explicitly indicating the notion of having to wait and prefer a more literal translation. In terms of the age-old translators dilemma of translating the words versus the meaning, I fallas most dosomewhere in the middle. 169 (AMV 30, missing in edition A/Lvi). Such a king would be called a Chakravartin, or a turner of wheels, referring the kings chariot wheels having turned in circumscribing his kingdom. four verses about Indra, the midwife, and the mother. 109 (AMV 21); (LH 986.7, NT 966.2). This and the following verse are missing from the Tibetan. Then, with many thousands of musical instruments. (57), Seeing that the crowd is well-disposed,95 he will talk about the truths of suffering, the arising of suffering, and the transcendence96 of suffering.97 (58), Along with the peaceful, holy eightfold path that leads to the extinction [of sorrows] (nirva), and having listened attentively to that doctrine they will begin to progress in the teaching.98 (59), And99 in a garden covered in flowers, there will be a gathering. Pigala (tawny, gold-colored) is located in, Kaliga, a historical region on the east coast of India below Calcutta. Having done only minimal research, I wonder, a genre of texts that were prevalent in Central Asia around this time. Maitreya is Maitreyavyakarana in Sanskrit for short. Here, he gives the essential keynotes of the Maitreya prophecy and with these words I conclude this article. Neither lying down nor sitting, that woman, who will have fulfilled her duty, The best of men will exit the womb from the right side [of his mother], just like the shining sun coming out from behind a mass of clouds. A Rapid Sanskrit Method. (Tibetan ) literally translates as outflow and refers to the outflowing of psychic energy toward objects of desire, but is commonly translated as contamination. 1, 4. Seeing that the audience is receptive, [Maitreya] will speak these truths, and having heard them, they will thus attain to the truth. 7. means duck whereas are long grasses used to make mats. A 1,200 year old Tibetan Buddhist prophecy of 'The Shambhala Warrior'. Because, for now, those are four of the more bizarre predictions from ancient Buddhist texts. 156The way of a priest (brahmacarya, , ) refers to religious practitioners in India who have renounced the world, practicing chastity, continence, and study the scriptures. Sanatan Dharma places a huge emphasis on teaching through representations of anything and everything that concerns them. Prophecies of the Golden Age Lord Shakyamuni Buddha's Prophecies about Maitreya Buddha ( P. 43 ). These are the Buddhist Pure Lands that the highest realm of cyclic existence. Maitreya is the same as the "fifth Buddha.". 24 (LH 979.6) AMV (5) and NT (959.4) have . As the Tulku Buddha Maitreya, He is the Living Buddha re-establishing the Dharma and the Sangha for the entire planet. over the earth up to the confines of the ocean; and he will make the Dharma prevail. Lvi (390-391) translates, when one jumps on it, it lowers itself and becomes soft like the leaves of cotton (, has when one jumps on it, it gives way, and becomes soft like the leaves of the cotton tree., as a continuative, whereas I am interpreting it as one of a pair of opposites: rising up (. These consist of 12 dityas, 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, and 2 Avins (MW 458.3). Maitreya will come from one of the upper castes, but instead of being from the warrior caste, he will be from the priestly caste of Brhmaa, As with Siddhrtha, Maitreyas future mother. [108]. One would expect the form (good Brhman), though in verse 42, we find the priests name in the form of which would be the nominative of (he for whom Brahm is good?). idyllic pregnancy, and, while she holds a branch of a tree, the baby will emerge from her side to avoid, the crud of birth. Winternitz cites in a note on that page that the name of the author is found only in the Tokharian and Uigurian fragments of the text. Having accepted the well-obtained precepts and the teachings, those beings have gone to the teachings, and you beings have gone [for refuge] to the Buddha, the teaching, and the community, and because of performing that meritorious deed, you have approached my teachings. One of the three components of the end-time Babylonian confederacy is the False Prophet representing the false holy spirit. Latin transliteration of non-Latin languages is a remnant of a time when technological limitations made it difficult to incorporate two fonts within the same text (think of typesetters). However, here the tree is a Nga tree (Citrus sinensis?) So the translation arms has been used as the unit of measurement, and the numbers have been doubled. (AMV 17 n.2). 19). advertisement. will take no steps to prevent his sons renunciation. Paris: E. Laroux, 1932. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1984. One major (the most populous) group within Hinduism is the worship of the God Vishnu and His Avatars. He also mentions an old Khotanese version of the Meeting with Maitreya (maitreyasamiti). The translation here follows the Tibetan more closely under the assumption that it represents a deeper understanding of the Sanskrit or an interpretation based on oral instruction. containing hints of those elements, is distinctly more limited than those later Great Vehicle epics. The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya is found in the canonical literature of all Buddhist sects (Theravda, Mahyna and Vajrayna) and is accepted by most Buddhists as a factual statement about a long-distant (or, in some cases, an incipient) millennial age.Characterization: Maitreya as Future Buddha Sections of it were also translated by Edward Conze in his collection Buddhist Scriptures in 1959. Edition A and the Tibetan leaves this out and instead has accompanied by thousands ( , AMV 20, n. 9; , LH 986.6, NT 965.7-966.1). . (28), At that time, a woman with the name of Brahmvat51 will be his wife. B enjamin Creme did not live to see Maitreya reveal himself to the world. The Tibetan has 64 fathoms side to side, 1000 top to bottom ( , LH 984.6, NT 964.1). In notes and elsewhere, I generally use the languages native script (Tibetan or Devangari) rather than transliteration. The Form Realm is populated by higher level beings who in. 77 (AMV 15). He was given the name, which fulfills the prophecy that, "Many will come in my name and will call themselves," Christ (or Maitreya ). The designation of prophecy is given to these works, a Buddha foretells the future enlightenment, one of their disciple-Bodhisattvas. Translation of theMaitreya-Vykaraamfrom Sanskrit with reference to Tibetan and French translations, includes introduction and bibliography. As ach is the goddess of jealousy whose father was an asura (demigod), one cannot help but wonder if the author of this text is purposefully alluding to Indras less than god-like attributes. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1984. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u2451526. After His death in . (100) [29], Having compassion on the world,162 the teacher Maitreya, best of bipeds, will teach the good doctrine for 60,000 years. THE PROPHECY CONCERNING MAITREYA. Answer (1 of 6): According to Ageless Wisdom Teachings given through H.P. Lvi (395) has All you, kyamuni had you before him, the best of sages, the savior, the true protector of the world, in whom the Law rests; he planted you on the path of deliverance, but you have had to wait for my teaching (Vous tous, kyamuni vous a eus sous les yeux, lui le premier des sages, le sauveur, le vrai protecteur du monde, en qui repose la Loi; il vous a plantes sur le chemin de la delivrance, mais vous avez d attendre mon enseignement). Conze (240) follows, or agrees with, Lvi. The Theosophical Maitreya: On Benjamin Creme's Millenarianism. 111 (AMV 21). Edition A has (Lvi 389, v. 94). He would then concentrate on all the buddhas and make the following aspiration: 1. The Mandra tree (Erythrina Indica) is also known as the Indian Coral Tree. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u1036127. 60 (AMV 12), (LH 982.6-981.7, NT 962.3). I undertook it in order to revive my limited knowledge of Sanskrit which had languished for many years. Both A and the Tibetan omit it (AMV 13 n. 4). - Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. The first half of the sentence uses the third person singular, . I do not know Chinese and so have not been able to avail myself of those translations as Lvi and Conze did. Leaving out the midwife but consistent with Indra snatching the baby in verse 34, version A translates: Thrilled indeed, the thousand-eyed, king of the gods, husband of ac will take that youth with the thirty-two marks. During these sabbaths lay people undertake eight vows: 1. not to kill, 2. not to steal, 3. not to be unchaste, 4. not to lie, 5. not to drink alcohol, 6. only eat before noon, 7. refrain from singing and dancing, and 8. not to sleep in an elevated or large bed. We can see here one of the central issues that Buddhism struggled with during the early days of the Great Vehicle (and indeed since Buddhisms inception), namely how to can Buddhismwhich ostensibly demands renunciation of the householder life styleprovide a relevant and satisfying path of practice for the lay person. The Tibetan is: (LH 987.6-988.1; 966.7-967.2). The story of the latter woman is found in both the Pali Canon (Divy 77.28, 466.24; Av i.224.3, ii.9.7; Karmav 87.15; 97.3) and, with significant variations, in the Mlasarvarstivda Vinaya (ii.53.16). The size of his assembly will be a full hundred yojanas.100 (60), Upon hearing this, the lord of men, the celebrated king named akha will give innumerable donations and desire renunciation.101 (61) [20], Surrounded by the 84,000 [hearers of Maitreyas sermon], the leader of men will go forth102 and give himself up to renunciation. You have been encompassed. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, the being is referred to as Ajita. According to Buddhist tradition, Maitreya is a bodhisattva who will appear on Earth in the future, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma. Having heard this extraordinary [tale] and having seen such abundant good fortune, Therefore, those who, here and now, are desirous of emancipation. This is made abundantly clear not only in the teachings that come from the mouth of Maitreya in the story, but in its closing verses (104-107) as well: Thus, when one calms their thoughts by placing them on the conqueror, the sage of the kyas, then you will see the thoroughly enlightened Maitreya, the best of bipeds. , Lvi (p. 396) has: In his path, they will make the ground as soft as cotton and cotton-padding, and they will spread in his way a variety of garlands (, . Conze simply translates this as Some time ago (Conze, Buddhist Scriptures, 238). His Teaching or Message is represented in a visual aid (Sign, Yantra, Mandala) called The Greatest Sign . The Sanskrit editions are missing the first 24 (A) and 30 (B) verses. Subjects Language TreeSino-TibetanTibeto-BurmanBodicBodish. 175The Tibetan adds: Translated by the Indian Scholar Jinamitra and the [Tibetan] translator-monk () Peltsek Rakhita. (LH 991.4-991.5, NT 969.7). I had reviewed my favorite primer, Harts. . His body will have a height of 50 hands. The Prophecy of Maitreya does not focus in detail on the doctrine taught by the future Buddha. The Sanskrit word, "Maitreya" (Pali: Metteya) which means, "The Benevolent One," simply refers to the future Buddha. Full references are listed in the Bibliography. 145thousand-eyed (, ) refers to the legend of Indra and Ahaly, wife of the sage Gautama. A new translation from the Sanskrit and Tibetan, non-virtuous actions to a subsequent lifes beneficial or harmful outcomes respectively. AMV (7) has , *. 148Version A and Tibetan have Guide of the world (, ) instead of Conqueror (AMV 27 n. 4). The Miraculous Fortnight (, ) refers to a religious holiday commemorating the legend of the Buddhas competition in the performance of miracles with six other ascetic sages of his day, during which the Buddha demonstrates his complete supremacy and thereby converts his opponents. According to Edgerton (BHSD 500.2), this is both the name of akhas main wife and kyamunis main female lay disciple, also called Mgramtar. 98Version A combines verses 58 & 59 in a different way: Suffering, the arising of suffering, the complete passing beyond suffering, the holy eightfold path that is peaceful and leads to nirvaseeing that the crowd is well-disposed, he will relate these truths. 138 (lit. The Buddha describes long lifespans of 80,000 years, but the stage of the stra and its prophecy do not extend beyond this Buddha realm. 106 (AMV 20). 105 (AMV 20); () (LH 986.6, NT 965.7). (63), Then, a householder known by the name of Sudhana105 whose being is pure106 [NT 966] will right there go forth [from his home] on account of Maitreyas instruction.107 (64), At this point, the jewel of women [i.e., the main wife] of akha, known by the name Vikh108 along with 84,000 women, will step forward and desire to go forth. 6/27. a different form. 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