The Blessed One replied, “Twelve years from now, on the fifteenth day of the second month of spring, Maitreya will return to the place where he took birth: the household of the great Brahmin Bāvarī, in the village of Kapāli, in the region of Vārāṇasī. There he will...
Known as the “Caturmahārāja” in Sanskrit —“Maha” meaning great and “Raja” meaning king — they have an important role within the Buddhist doctrine. Each one of these magnificent entities presides over one cardinal direction of our world. These Four Great Kings, the “Sì Dàtiā...