His image is usually in the hall of the four guardians facing outward, where he is represented as the fat laughing Buddha, but in some places his image is tall, e.g. He presides over the spread of the church, protects its members and will usher in ultimate victory for Buddhism. His two epithets are 慈氏 Benevolent, and Ajita 阿逸多 'Invincible'.
According to tradition he was born in Southern India of a Brahman family. The Buddhist Messiah, or next Buddha, now in the Tuṣita heaven, who is to come 5,000 years after the nirvāṇa of Śākyamuni, or according to other reckoning after 4,000 heavenly years, i.e. Custom Scroll Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
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