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Look, even Buddha predicted jesus would come in the future!

...'I am not the first Buddha Who came upon this earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time another Buddha will arise in the world, a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a Master of angels and mortals. He will reveal to you the same eternal truths which I have taught you. He will preach to you His religion, glorious in its origin, glorious at the climax and glorious at the goal, in spirit and in the letter. He will proclaim a religious life, wholly perfect and pure, such as I now proclaim.' His disciples will number many thousands, while Mine number many hundreds.'

[Where did this actually come from and where does it talk about Jesus?]

(link to a site naming Baha'u'llah as the person referenced)

LOL if you can't see that means jesus, you're blind.

Who's "disciples" number many thousands?

Doesn't Buddha have less disciples?

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old comment by Anon

It seems that we need some education here:

In Early Buddhism, we find the concept of Maitreya: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya, who is held to be a future Buddha who will appear on Earth, achieve enlightenment, and teach the true dharma. The prophecy describes this as happening after the dharma (as taught by Gautama Buddha) has been forgotten.

The prophecy of Maitreya does not appear to have originated with Gautama Buddha himself, since the earliest text mentioning it date only to the first century BCE, when the Pali Canon was codified. There are suggestions that the idea came from Hindu traditions of incarnations of Vishnu, or Zoroastrian and other Indo-Iranian traditions of a messiah.

The trick with this particular prophecy is the bit about Maitreya only arriving when the dharma has been forgotten on Earth. It leads to a nice head-game: as long as we know about the prophecy, then the prophecy apparently cannot be fulfilled.

This has not stopped many people from claiming to be or have been called the Maitreya Buddha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Buddha_claimants. Baha'u'llah is asserted to have been Maitreya, as well as an avatar of Vishnu and, more generally the Promised One of all earlier religions.

Various Buddhist teachers describe Jesus as a Bodhisattva, one who seeks enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings, and/or a Paccekabuddha, one who has achieved enlightenment on their own in the absence of another Buddha to teach them. But he is not considered to be Maitreya.

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Confused?