彌勒 (1) Maitreya the bodhisattva. 'Maitreya', means 'benevolent.' The bodhisattva who will appear in this world to become the next Buddha after 5,670,000,000 years when he ends his life in the Tuṣita Heaven 兜率天. According to tradition, he was born into a Brahman family in southern India. His two epithets are 慈氏 "benevolent" and Ajita 阿逸多 "invincible." He presides over the spread of the sangha, and protects its members. There are numerous Maitreya sutras.
(2) Maitreya (or Maitreyanātha) the semi-legendary figure usually named as the founder of Yogācāra Buddhism 瑜伽行派. He is thought to have lived from around 270-350 CE, and is the putative author of such Yogācāra works as the Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra 瑜伽論, the Madhyānta-vibhāga 中邊分別論, and so forth. He is credited with the establishment of such basic Yogācāra notions as conscious construction-only 唯識, the three bodies of the Buddha 三身, the three natures 三性, and the ālaya consciousness 阿頼耶識. He was the teacher of Asaṅga 無著.
菩薩名，華譯為慈氏，現住在兜率天內院，是一生補處菩薩，將來當於住劫中的第十小劫，人壽減至八萬歲時，下生此界，繼釋迦牟尼佛之後，為賢劫之第五尊佛。
Maitreya, friendly, benevolent. The Buddhist Messiah, or next Buddha, now in the Tuṣita heaven, who is to come 5,000 years after the nirvāṇa of Śākyamuni, or according to other reckoning after 4,000 heavenly years, i.e. 5,670,000,000 human years. According to tradition he was born in Southern India of a Brahman family. His two epithets are 慈氏 Benevolent, and Ajita 阿逸多 'Invincible'. He presides over the spread of the church, protects its members and will usher in ultimate victory for Buddhism. His image is usually in the hall of the four guardians facing outward, where he is represented as the fat laughing Buddha, but in some places his image is tall, e.g. in Peking in the Yung Ho Kung. Other forms are彌帝M075962; 迷諦隸; 梅低梨; 梅怛麗 (梅怛藥 or 梅怛邪); 每怛哩; 昧怛 M067070曳; 彌羅. There are numerous Maitreya sūtras.
【梵】maitreyaḥ
【梵】मैत्रेयः【中】慈氏
【中】彌勒
【藏】byams pa
彌勒 (mí lè) (name of a bodhisattva)
Dharmarakṣa: {63c15}
{K.7.4} Maitreya
Kumārajīva: {L.2b24} 彌勒
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