Associations to the word «Maitreya»

Wiktionary

MAITREYA, proper noun. A bodhisattva who is considered, in Buddhism, to be a future Buddha.

Dictionary definition

MAITREYA, noun. The Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin