Pāli Dictionary

metteyya1

mettāstemeyyasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

Root

mitt1to be friendly

doctrine

  • Metteyya, the mythical future Buddha (Sanskrit Maitreya)

  • DN 26

    asītivassasahass'āyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu metteyyo nāma bhagavā loke uppajjissati arahaṃ sammāsambuddho vijjācaraṇasampanno sugato lokavidū anuttaro purisadammasārathi satthā devamanussānaṃ buddho bhagavā.

metteyya2

mettāstemeyyasuffix

Part of speech

noun · masculine

general

  • name of a young Brahman

Encyclopedia

Metteyya
Person

  • The future Buddha, fifth of the present world-cycle, foretold to be born in Ketumatī with the personal name Ajita during an age when humans live eighty thousand years.

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