What
is known about the next 10 Future Buddhas?
The next one is the last in this
Universe! His name is
Metteyya
– The friendly one!
see:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/me_mu/metteyya.htm and
indeed
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Metteyya/arimet00.htm and
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/How-2-Meet_Buddha_Metteyya.htm
The
Bodhisatta (Lit: Being who will Awaken)
Metteyya in Tusita Heaven.
Then follows a Universal Cycle (=Aeon=kappa=kalpa) empty of Buddhas!
In that
aeon humans will act like animals or worse. Incest & cannibalism will
be the rule of the day. Terror, wars, death & agony! So make effort NOW!
Then in the next eon 2 Buddhas will emerge: First Rāma and later Dhammarāja
Buddha Dhammarāja was king Pasenadi of Kosala at Gotama Buddha's time.
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/pasenadi.htm
Then in the next eon 1 Buddha Abhibhū will appear. He is now a king of devas.
(4th from right above w. halo)
Then will come another empty eon.
Then will come an eon with 2 Buddhas: Dīghasonī and Cankī.
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/c/cankii.htm
They will be called:
Buddha
Nārada and
Buddha
Ramsimuni.
Then will come an eon with 2 Buddhas: Subha and Todeyya.
They will be called: Buddha Devadeva and Buddha Narasīha
Then will come another empty eon.
Then will come an eon with 2 Buddhas: Tissa and Sumangala.
Buddha Tissa was the elephant Nālagiri at Gotamas time.
(see the 2 elephants left above)
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/naalaagiri.htm
Buddha Sumangala was the elephant Pārileyya at Gotamas time.
(see the 2 elephants top below)
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/pa/parileyya.htm
Source: Details on the 10 future Buddhas:
Dasabodhisattuppattikatha (English & Pali)
The Birth Stories of the Ten Bodhisattas.
Ed. & Tr. Ven. H. Saddhatissa.
Sacred Books of the Buddhists Vol. XXIX. Pali Text Society.
https://store.pariyatti.org/Birth-Stories-of-the-Ten-Bodhisattas_p_1956.html
See also the explanation
of the future:
Anāgatavamsa Desana. The sermon of the Chronicle to be.
Tr. Udaya Meddegama; Ed. John Clifford Holt. 1993
Buddhist Tradition Series. Vol. 21. Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi.
http://www.amazon.com/Anagatavamsa-Desana-Chronicle-Buddhist-Tradition/dp/812081133X
