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This is part of ' The Hidden Monarch - The Eschatological Dimension' series.
Maitreya (Sanskrit), Metteyya (Pali), is regarded as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the Amitabha Sutra and the Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as Ajita.
The prophecy of the arrival of Maitreya refers to a time in the future when the dharma will have been forgotten by most on the terrestrial world.
Maitreya is the future Messiah; He is yet to descend to preach the Law at the end of our Kalpa (aeon).
In the Buddhist tradition, the story of Maitreya, the future Buddha, plays a central role in the cultural history of virtually every period and every area of Buddhist Asia.
There is a variety of quite distinctive expressions of the Buddhist tradition.
The Maitreya legend has provided a symbol rich in possibility for culturally specific, local elaboration, yet it has also continued throughout to draw on a group of core themes and aspirations deeply rooted in the Buddhist culture common to most of Asia.
Every Buddhist culture has appropriated this appealing figure under many guises from which Buddhism shaped, and was shaped by a series of cultural encounters and traditions, reaching across Asia, corresponding to different manifestations of the cycle for different peoples.
Maitreya's place as the future Buddha seems to have been established quite early in Buddhist history.
The emergence of the figure of
Maitreya, whose coming would mark the fulfillment of Buddha's law as well
with the establishment of universal peace and concord made a decisive impact on Buddhist views of the future
By necessity, any study of Maitreya must be as multifaceted as the figure Himself.
The term Buddhism is derived from the Pali designation Buddha (Sanskrit: Buddha) given to its founder; it is, however, not so much a name as a title. Buddha, from the root budh, "to awaken," means the "Awakened One": it is thus a designation applied to one who attains the spiritual realization likened to an "arousing" or to an "awakening,"
which Prince Siddhartha announced to the Indo-Aryan world.
- Julius Evola -
"The Buddhas who have been, are, and will be, are more
numerous than the grains of sand on the banks of the
The Ganges."
- Aparimita Dharani -
All past and all future Buddhas teach the same saving
knowledge in the manner best suited to the time and place of
their appearance.
- A.K.Coomaraswamy -
The last part of the video explains the Buddhist cycle of time
The images and the music are not my artwork.
The texts are thoroughly gathered from different books.
I have only arranged the texts according to the images and the music, to present a video that may briefly envelop the most important aspects of the subject in question.
For further research see :
- Charles Upton - Legends of the End: Prophecies of the End Times, Antichrist, Apocalypse, and Messiah from Eight Religious Traditions
- Alan Sponberg, Helen Hardacre - Maitreya, the Future Buddha
- Padmanabh S. Jain - Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies
Also, for a better approach on Buddhism see :
-A.K.Coomaraswamy - Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism
-A.K.Coomaraswamy - Hinduism and Buddhism
The songs are Tibetan tantric chants :
Sangwa dupai tsagyud (Tibetan Tantric Choir)
• Sangwa dupai tsagyud (...
Tibetan Buddhist Chants of Namgyal Monastery (1)
• Tibetan Buddhist Chant...
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The series of the "Hidden-Monarch - The Lord of the World"
encompass three major aspects that merge into the eschatological dimension.
The first aspect is mostly known as the Advent of the Parousia at the end of the time. The reign of spiritual liberty.
It is represented by the coming of God Himself, either through the representation of an Avatara or through different Manifestations;
with the expectation of Parousia, as a Theophanic descent in our plane of manifestation. Jesus Christ, Buddha Maitreya, Kalki Avatara, Imam al-Mahdi, etc.
The second aspect represents the perpetual Legislators that regent a cycle of existence, thus maintaining a bridge through the mediation of God and our world, most commonly through Prophets or the highest initiates.
These Universal Legislators are Melki-Tsedeq, al-Khidr, Menes, Raja-Chakravarti, etc.
The third aspect which is mainly overlooked comprises the hidden heroes namely the legendary figures who have remained in suspended animation through the entire course of a cycle until the end of the world; aroused from their occultation to assume the final role of redeemers.
King Arthur, Frederic Barbarossa, Keresapa, Kashyapa, Stephan the Great, Alexander the Great, Marko Kralevici, Prester John, etc.