According to the traditional accounts, Gautama, the future Buddha, was a prince who grew up in an environment of luxury and opulence.

In the year 601 CE, Emperor Wen had relics of the Buddha distributed to temples throughout China, with edicts that expressed his goals, " all the people within the four seas may, without exception, develop enlightenment and together cultivate fortunate karma, bringing it to pass that present existences will lead to happy future lives, that the sustained creation of good causation will carry us one and all up to wondrous enlightenment ".

Some Buddhist traditions consider him a Buddha or a bodhisattva, often identifying him with Maitreya ( the future Buddha ).

In these teachings the word is used to refer to each being's inborn potential to realize Buddhahood through Buddhist practices, and future status as a Buddha.

All sentient beings will have in future ages the most perfect enlightenment, i. e., the Buddha nature.

All sentient beings had in past ages deeds leading to the elimination of defilements and so can now perceive the Buddha nature as their future goal.

He believed himself to be a future Buddha, expecting to change the colour of his blood from red to white.

The idea was to include the veneration of the Maitreya Buddha, the future and fifth Buddha of this era, in addition to the four who had already appeared.

Maitreya ( Sanskrit ), Metteyya ( Pāli ), or Jampa ( Tibetan ), is foretold as a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology.

The future Buddha Maitreya, Gandhara, 3rd century CE.

The story of Sam is based partly on the myths that surround the Buddha, the future buddha Maitreya, and Kalki, the coming tenth Avatar of Vishnu.

The Buddha taught that because conditioned phenomena are impermanent, attachment to them becomes the cause for future suffering ( dukkha ).

In this same sutra the Buddha explains that he proclaims all beings to have Buddha-nature ( which is used synonymously with " tathāgatagarbha " in this sutra ) in the sense that they will in the future become Buddhas.

Several direct depictions of Kushans are known from Gandhara, where they are represented with a tunic, belt and trousers and play the role of devotees to the Buddha, as well as the Bodhisattva and future Buddha Maitreya.

A Buddha in the gardens of the Museum In 1904, some leading citizens of Bombay decided to provide a museum to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales, the future King George V. On June 22, 1904, the committee passed a resolution saying, " The building should have a handsome and noble structure befitting the site selected, and in keeping with the best style of local architecture ".

Sakyamuni Buddha is flanked by Manjushri, the deity of wisdom and Maitreya and of the future Buddha.

Secret history is sometimes used in a long-running science fiction or fantasy universe to preserve continuity with the present by reconciling paranormal, anachronistic, or otherwise notable but unrecorded events with what actually happened in known history ; for instance, in the Star Trek universe, Greg Cox's novels The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh cast the devastating Eugenics Wars of the 1990s ( still well into the future when first mentioned in an episode from 1967 ) as shadow wars most people never knew about, in which such real-life events from that era as the Smiling Buddha nuclear test, the Yugoslav Wars, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots were all part of one wider conflict.

One badly eroded bas-relief illustrates the " Great Departure " of Siddhartha, the future Buddha, from his father's palace.

The Blue Cliff Record tells the story of the future emperor of China, hiding in the Chan community as a novice monk, receiving slaps from Huángbò for questioning why Huángbò was bowing to an image of the Buddha.

" The Buddha then explains: " In exactly the same way ..., all form by which one could predicate the existence of the saint, all that form has been abandoned, uprooted, pulled out of the ground like a palmyra-tree, and become non-existent and not liable to spring up again in the future.

It is perfectly conceivable that a resumption of atmospheric tests may, at some point in the future, be necessary and even justifiable.

Provided, That nothing in this provision shall be construed to limit the life of the Commission, or its authority to act on future agreements which may be effected under the provisions of this legislation.

A brief course in hydraulics from the pool builders may well be appreciated in a future crisis.

A site may be a rundown slum or a desolate piece of desert in appearance today but have excellent potentials for the future with a little development or water.

A prospective industry also may be interested in the long-run advantages of training programs in the area to supply future skilled workers and provide supplementary extension courses for its employees.

J. Wheaton Smith, editor of the Warren Telegraph stated that `` the ends of justice must be satisfied, a solitary example must be set, in order that all those misnamed philantropists, who, actuated by a blind zeal, dare to instigate riot, treason, and murder, may heed it and shape their future course accordingly ''.

The drive along Massachusetts' Route 128, the by-pass which makes an arc about twenty miles from downtown Boston, may be a vision of the future.

You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.

She may well be incapacitated by it when she is confronted with present and future alternatives -- e.g., whether to prepare primarily for a career or for the role of a homemaker ; ;

If an evil which is certain and extensive and immediate may rarely be compensated for by a problematic, speculative, future good, by the same token not every present, certain, and immediate good ( or lesser evil ) that may have to be done will be outweighed by a problematic, speculative, and future evil.

He does what he can and may and must, without regarding himself as lord of the future or, on the other hand, as covered with guilt by accident or unforeseen consequences or by results he did not `` permit '' in the sense explained.

We should not allow the image of an immanent end brought about indirectly by our own action in the continuing human struggle for a just endurable order of existence to blind us to the fact that in some measure accelerating the end of our lease may be one consequence among others of many other of mankind's thrusts toward we know not what future.

It may also be a signal of interactive and cooperative intentions since those not interacting further in the future gain nothing from the costly signaling.

The boundaries of the Asparagales and of its families have undergone a series of changes in recent years ; future research may lead to further changes and ultimately greater stability.

From the outset, these were not intended to displace the autonomy of the emerging provinces of the Communion, but to " discuss matters of practical interest, and pronounce what we deem expedient in resolutions which may serve as safe guides to future action.

At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.

This effect may be understood as another case of custom or habit taking past experience and using it to predict the future.

Participants may also make boasts of their own deeds, or oaths or promises of future actions.

On a network with many machines it may take several tries before a free address is found, so for performance purposes the successful address is " written down " in NVRAM and used as the default address in the future.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

In law, the term abeyance can only be applied to such future estates as have not yet vested or possibly may not vest.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.