The 'Laughing Buddha' dancing in flowers - Chinese Deities 8

The 'Laughing Buddha' the Buddhist Boddhisattva Mile Pusa (Sanskrit: Maitreya), commonly known as Milofo who is in fact the 'Future Buddha' - the original Shakyamuni Buddha returned after 5000 years to reteach his teachings before Armageddon. In the non-Mahayana schools of Buddhism, the only Bodhisattvas recognized are the previous incarnations of the Siddhartha Gautama as recorded in the Jataka books of the Khuddaka-Nikaya , and Mile Pusa (Maitreya) , the future Buddha predicted to be born after a lapse of five thousand years. The religious goal of Buddhism was through meditation and correct conduct, to become an arhat, one who has escaped the cycle of rebirths (Rahula 1959). The Mahayana...View all