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...West, however, was not the only target of Manichaean missionaries. The religion flourished throughout Central Asia, where surviving texts preserve a Jesus who was merged with the Buddhist deity Maitreya, the Boddhisatva of the future, who, like Christ, will come at the end of the world. As the centuries passed, this Manichaean-tinged Maitreya would inspire millenarian revolts in China, one of which helped bring down the empire of Kublai Khan in the 14th century. The leader of the successful rebel coalition rewarded his allies of the "Bright" religion by naming the new regime after their faith--Ming-chiao...
...comfortable wooden frame house on a quiet, tree-lined street about a half-mile south of the Harvard football stadium is the setting for the Maitreya World Foundation. Inside are purple soft carpets, pillows for meditation, incense, and pictures and statutes of Buddhas and Jesuses and elephant-faced Indian gods. The foundation used to be called the Ashram of the World Mother but "that looked too culty, so we adopted a broader name," Mata Maitreya, the ashram's teacher, explains. "I shouldn't be the only world mother. This is a symbol. I'll be happy if every woman...
...catalog puts its, "Mata Maitreya and specially trained students who reside at the ashram are co-workers and messengers of the Great White Brotherhood, thus called because it is dedicated to the pure White Light of Truth and Perfection." The Brotherhood, also called the Ascended Masters or the Spiritual Hierarchy, are the highly evolved souls who guide Earth's destiny, or so the theory goes. From time to time they enter the world as the great prophets and religious teachers, and sometime in the future one of these souls will return as Maitreya, the Buddha of salvation, sometimes equated with...
...Maitreya Foundation did not conceive the idea of the Hierarchy. The Theophical Society, founded in 1875 as one of the first groups to look to the East for spiritual wisdom, also understands things this way. Located down the block from some Boston University dorms and the Ramakrishna Vedanat Society, which entered the U.S. at the time of the 1893 World Parliament of Religion in Chicago, the Theosophical Society has a broader age range than most similar groups and encourages members to remain in their own religion. The society's three objectives, displayed for all on a poster hung...
...hundreds of effigies were made for temples. These Buddhas gradually took on a distinctly Korean look. More naturalistic, more linear and more attenuated than the Chinese models, they also began to reflect the features of their creators: faces grew rounder and cheekbones higher. Head bent in contemplation, a bronze Maitreya (a young Buddha) possesses a native spontaneity and grace. Similar figures later appeared in Japan, establishing Korea as the transmitter of Buddhist thought from the mainland...