title: Maitreya (disambiguation)
text: # Maitreya (disambiguation)
  
  Maitreya is the future Buddha in Buddhist eschatology.
  
  Maitreya may also refer to:
  
  * Maitreya (Mahābhārata), a sage in the Indian epic Mahabharata
  * Maitreya (Share International), an organization that has stated Maitreya has been living in London, England since the 1970s
  * Maitreya (Theosophy), a member of the Theosophical "Masters of the Ancient Wisdom"
  * Maitreya-nātha, the reputed co-author of a number of Yogacara Buddhist treatises
  * Maitreya Great Tao, a Yiguandao splinter sect founded by Wang Hao-te
  * Maitreya teachings, a set of beliefs that developed in China as early as the 6th century CE
  * Maitreya Upanishad, one of the minor scriptures of Hinduism
  * Akshay Kumar Maitreya, Indian historian and social worker
  * Arya Maitreya Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhism Order founded by Anagarika Govinda
  * Balangoda Ananda Maitreya Thero, a Sri Lankan monk and scholar
  * Sananda Maitreya (fka Terence Trent D'Arby), an American singer-songwriter
  