{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bits_bits102_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bud_bits_bits102_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bud_bits_bits102_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/bits/bits102.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly translation of a 19th-century Pali manuscript \u2014 a mixed prose-and-verse recension of the *An\u0101gata-va\u1e43sa* (\"History of Future Events\") \u2014 presented by Prof. J. Minayeff in the 1886 *Journal of the P\u0101li Text Society*. The text is structured as a dialogue in which the Buddha responds to the disciple S\u0101riputta's question about the future Buddha Metteyya (Maitreya), first tracing Metteyya's past lives and then describing the long decline of the Dharma before his coming. That decline unfolds in five sequential \"disappearances\": spiritual attainments, monastic practice, Buddhist learning (with a remarkably specific reverse-order erasure of the Pali canon, from the Abhidhamma down to single four-line verses), the outward symbols of monkhood, and finally the physical relics of the Buddha. A notably distinctive feature is the precision with which textual loss is mapped \u2014 specific books named in the order they will vanish \u2014 culminating in a scene where a king offers a fortune for anyone who can recite a single verse and finds no one. The text closes with a pragmatic soteriology: a detailed list of the ordinary meritorious acts (giving flowers, listening to stories, honoring parents) that will earn a person the chance to hear Metteyya's teaching and attain liberation. It is a primary source of interest to scholars of Therav\u0101da eschatology, Buddhist textual transmission, and the cult of Maitreya.","tags":["Henry Clarke Warren","Pali Canon Translations","Theravada Buddhism"],"text":null,"title":"Buddhism in Translations - \u00a7 102. The Buddhist Apocalypse.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Buddhism","translated_text":null,"word_count":1895}