What Buddha does Maitreya belong to?

The future Buddha, that is, the fifth Buddha among thousands of Buddhas robbed by the sages, is often called "Maitreya Buddha".

Maitreya (Maitreya in Sanskrit and Metteyya in Balinese), translated as cishi, is often called Mahayana Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhist classics. He is a descendant of Buddha Sakyamuni and will be born and cultivated in the world of concubines in the future.

He is regarded as the originator of epistemology, and his huge ideological system has been interpreted and developed by Bodhisattva and Bodhisattva, and highly praised by China Mahayana Buddhist masters Zhi Qian, Daoan and Xuanzang. In some temples of Han Buddhism, it is common to show your chest and abdomen, with a smiling face (or a pot-bellied monk) as the prototype. In Buddhism, as a kind of expressive education, it means "a large quantity is a blessing", reminding the world to learn tolerance.

Among them, the big belly can accommodate things that are difficult to accommodate in the world; Open your mouth and laugh at the ridiculous people in the world.

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Generally, the first day of the first month is the birthday of Maitreya, a temple in the Han Dynasty. The reason for this practice is that it is said that the birthday of the cloth-bag monk is on the first day of the first month, and the cloth-bag monk is known as Maitreya. The cloth-bag monk, formerly known as "Seven Philosophers" and also known as "Long Pavilion", is generally called "Biography of Song Monks" Volume 21.

According to legend, his death was very strange. On this day, he came to the East Corridor of Lin Yue Temple in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, sat on a rock and said, "Maitreya Buddha is really Maitreya Buddha, with thousands of members;" Always showing the time, people don't know. " When I finished, I died safely. People think of this extraordinary daily behavior, so they think it is the embodiment of Maitreya, and shape it into a "Maitreya Buddha and Bodhisattva" according to his appearance, and place it in the middle of the Temple of the King of Heaven. In this way, Maitreya Bodhisattva also has its own birthday.

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