Associations to the word «Maitreya»

Wiktionary

MAITREYA, proper noun. A bodhisattva who is considered, in Buddhism, to be a future Buddha.

Dictionary definition

MAITREYA, noun. The Bodhisattva who is to appear as a Buddha 5000 years after the death of Gautama.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne