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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King