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Maitreya, the Future Buddha
By: Alan Sponberg and Helen Hardacre

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Author: Alan Sponberg and Helen Hardacre
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780521180108
Publication Date: 1988 / 2011

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Originally published in 1988, this book is a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural study of the legend that has evolved around the figure of Maitreya, which followers of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama had agreed would be the future Buddha, and the substantial influence of this legend on Buddhist culture. Arising out of an international conference held at Princeton University, this collection of twelve essays by specialists in textual studies, art history and cultural anthropology examines the origins of the Maitreya tradition in South Asia as well as a variety of culturally specific expressions of the tradition as it developed in China, Korea, Vietnam and Japan. The essays explore the various expectations Buddhist practitioners have had of Maitreya and examine the iconographic and ritualistic symbols associated with this messianic and millenarian figure. Several essays also examine the controversy regarding circumstances under which the figure has sometimes taken on apocalyptic and eschatological characteristics.

Contents: Maitreya, the Future Buddha

List of Contributors vii

Preface xi

Abbreviations xv

Introduction - Alan Sponberg
1

I. Maitreya and the History of Religions

1 The Many Faces of Maitreya: A Historian of Religions' Reflections - Joseph M. Kitagawa 7

2
The Meanings of the Maitreya Myth: A Typological Analysis - Jan Nattier
23

II The Core Tradition and Its Subsequent Variation

Maitreya in South Asia: Introduction -
Alan Sponberg 51

3 Stages in the Bodhisattva Career of the Tathagata Maitreya - Padmanabh S. Jaini 54

Maitreyya in China, Korea, and Vietnam: Introduction - Alan Sponberg 91

4 Wonhyo on Maitreya Visualization -
Alan Sponberg 94

5 Messenger, Savior, and Revolutionary: Maitreya in Chinese Popular Religious Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -
Daniel L. Overmyer 110

6 Maitreya in Korea - Lewis Lancaster 135

7 Perfect World and Perfect Time: Maitreya in Vietnam - Hue-Tam Ho Tai 154

Maitreya in Japan: Introduction -
Helen Hardacre 171

8 Types of Maitreya Belief in Japan - Miyata Noboru 175

9 The Pensive Prince of Chuguji: Maitreya Cult and Image in Seventh-Century Japan - Christine M. E. Guth 191

10 Awaiting Maitreya at Kasagi - Karen L. Brock 214

11 Mr. Fuji as the Realm of Miroku: The Transformation of Maitreya in the Cult of Mt. Fuji in Early Modern Japan - Martin Collcutt 248

12 Maitreya in Modern Japan - Helen Hardacre 270

Epilogue: A Prospectus for the Study of Maitreya - Alan Sponberg 285

Index 298

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