When did Maitreya become Buddha?
It’s very difficult to meet one.
Gautama Buddha had entered the Nirvana.
Below him, Maitreya became Buddha.
How long did he take?
From his end in Tuṣita to his manifestation as a Buddha in this world.
One day in Tuṣita is equivalent to 400 years in the mortal world.
One year there also takes 360 days.
By this calculation, each day there takes 400 years here.
He lived for 4,000 years.
So it approximately took 5.67 billion years
for him to incarnate.
5.67 billion years!
Our world, Jambu-dvīpa, has been through numerous small kalpas.
One small kalpa symbolizes one reduction of human life span.
The Buddhism scriptures said that humans can live as long as 84,000 years old.
One year is reduced per 100 years, down to 10.
We are in this reducing state.
In the time of Gautama Buddha, humans can live for 100 years.
Three thousand years have passed since then.
Nowadays, people live for 70 years in average.
One year will be reduced in the next century.
Reducing to 10-year old needs another 60 years of reduction.
So people will live for 10 years after 6,000 years.
Then one year will increase per 100 years, all the way to 84,000 years.
That is a small kalpa.
Maitreya became Buddha by taking 5.67 billion years.
That’s 70 million years at the end.
So we’re in this increasing-decreasing kalpa in this world.
It has to take numerous increasing-decreasing kalpas for Maitreya to come.
If now you say that Maitreya has come, that’s only the Nirmāṇakāya instead of incarnation in this world like Gautama Buddha, who manifested with fulfilled eight deeds.
No.
That incarnation is difficult to meet.
- Master Chin Kung
Excerpt from 彌勒菩薩什麼時候成佛？ https://youtu.be/WW2q2OwRmIA
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