Maitreya (disambiguation)
Maitreya is the future Buddha in Buddhist eschatology.
Maitreya may also refer to:
- Maitreya (Mahābhārata), a sage in the Indian epic Mahabharata
- Maitreya (Share International), an organization that claims Maitreya incarnated in the 1970s
- Maitreya (Theosophy), a member of the so-called Masters of the Ancient Wisdom
- Maitreya-nātha, the reputed co-author of a number of Yogacara Buddhist treatises
- Maitreya Great Tao, a Yiguandao splinter sect founded by Wang Hao-te
- Maitreya teachings, a set of beliefs that developed in China as early as the 6th century CE
- Maitreya Upanishad, one of the minor scriptures of Hinduism
- Akshay Kumar Maitreya, Indian historian and social worker
- Arya Maitreya Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhism Order founded by Anagarika Govinda
- Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, a Sri Lankan monk and scholar
- Sananda Maitreya (fka Terence Trent D'Arby), an American singer-songwriter
See also
- Maitreya Project – International organization set up to construct a 500ft-high statue of Maitreya
- Gilt-bronze Maitreya in Meditation – Buddhist sculptures designated Korean National Treasures
- Paradise of Maitreya – Dry fresco painting by Zhu Haogu, created during the Yuan Dynasty
- Benjamin Creme – Scottish author promoting an interpretation of Maitreya
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