At the request of Sariputta who desired to know about the future Buddha, the Buddha Gotama spoke in brief about Metteyya Buddha.
The future Buddha will be born in India at Ketumati in a Brahman family. He will be named Ajita and will posses immense wealth. He will enjoy worldly life for eight thousand years and then will forsake the world after having seen the four signs.
Thousands of men and women will renounce the world with him. On the day of his retirement he will proceed to the great Bodhi tree. He will attain supreme enlightenment and then will set rolling the wheel of the law.
Many will escape worldly miseries by following the Dhamma which will be preached by the Buddha Metteyya.
We are now in the Kali Yuga of the 28th Mahayuga. The Buddha say the future Metteyya Buddha will live for eight thousand years indicated that he will be born in the Treta Yuga of the 29th Mahayuga. The life span of human beings during the Tretayuga period is 10,000 years. That will be 1,000,000 (1 million) years from now.
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