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[GrahamR]

Greetings

My sister in law is quite interested in this 'Buddha'

To me it seem to be something else to obscure Buddha's teaching.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya

What have other people heard, what are your views please?

With metta Graham

[huli]

I believe I heard on this forum from a major contributor, that it is recorded once in the sutras where Buddha himself predicted the coming of this next future Buddha in 5000 years. The quotation is considered suspect by many, since Buddha repeated important teachings over and over, and he was not a prophet who predicted historical events. The story may have been added by someone in antiquity.

I agree with your take on the significance of Maitreya..

Various people have claimed to be Maitreya, or have been proclaimed by others to be Maitreya. For a good while there, many of the Theosophical folks considered Krishnamurti to be Maitreya. He never claimed such a thing, however.