Maitreya

  

PersonType	Category:Authors of Sanskrit Works Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNamePhon	Maitreya
MainNameTib	བྱམས་པ་
MainNameWylie	byams pa
MainNameDev	मैत्रेय
MainNameSkt	Maitreya
SortName	Maitreya
AltNamesTib	འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པ་  ·  བྱམས་པའི་མགོན་པོ་  ·  མགོན་པོ་བྱམས་པ་  ·  མ་ཕམ་པ་
AltNamesWylie	'phags pa byams pa  ·  byams pa'i mgon po  ·  mgon po byams pa  ·  ma pham pa
AltNamesOther	Ajita
bio	Known in Tibetan as the "Lord of Love" or the "Noble Loving One" འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པ། (Pakpa Jampa), the "Loving Protector" བྱམས་པའི་མགོན་པོ་ (Jampay Gonpo), in Chinese as 弥勒佛 (Mi Le Fo), Japanese as Miroku, and commonly as Maitreya throughout Asia and beyond. Maitreya is the bodhisattva called the "future Buddha" who resides in Tushita heaven until coming to the human realm to take the role of the next Buddha after Śākyamuni Buddha. According to tradition, Asaṅga received teachings from Maitreya and recorded them in the Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya, which form the basis for buddha-nature teachings and the larger Yogācāra teachings in general. The list of five is: Ornament of Clear Realization (Abhisamayālaṃkāra, mngon rtogs rgyan, 現觀莊嚴論); Ornament for the Mahāyāna Sūtras (Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra, theg pa chen po mdo sde rgyan, 大乘莊嚴經論); Differentiation of the Middle and the Extremes (Madhyāntavibhāga, dbus mtha' rnam 'byed, 辨中邊論頌); Differentiation of Phenomena and Their Nature (Dharmadharmatāvibhāga, chos dang chos nyid rnam 'byed, 辨法法性論); and The Mahāyāna Treatise of the Highest Continuum (Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra, theg pa chen po rgyud bla ma'i bstan bcos, 分別寶性大乘無上續論).
BiographicalInfo	Maitreya is often called the future Buddha and is the bodhisattva who resides in Tushita heaven until coming to the human realm to take the role of the next Buddha after Shakyamuni Buddha.
TeacherOf	Asaṅga
BDRC	http://tbrc.org/link?RID=P6118
Himalayan Art Resources	https://www.himalayanart.org/pages/maitreya/index.html
IsInGyatsa	No
BnwShortPersonBio	Known in Tibetan as the "Lord of Love" or the "Noble Loving One" འཕགས་པ་བྱམས་པ། (Pakpa Jampa), the "Loving Protector" བྱམས་པའི་མགོན་པོ་ (Jampay Gonpo), in Chinese as 弥勒佛 (Mi Le Fo), Japanese as Miroku, and commonly as Maitreya throughout Asia and beyond. Maitreya is the bodhisattva called the "future Buddha" who resides in Tushita heaven until coming to the human realm to take the role of the next Buddha after Śākyamuni Buddha. According to tradition, Asaṅga received teachings from Maitreya and recorded them in the Five Dharma Treatises of Maitreya, which form the basis for buddha-nature teachings and the larger Yogācāra teachings in general.
PosBuNayDefProv	Definitive
PosAllBuddha	Yes
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Related to Asaṅga

Writings

• Bibliography of the Works of Maitreya

This refers to a series of five texts that, according to the Tibetan tradition, Asaṅga received directly from Maitreya in the pure realm of Tuṣita.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.