What is Maitreya?
{{Infobox Buddha | name = Maitreya | image = File:Maitreya Buddha the next Buddha.jpg | caption = Close-up of a statue depicting Maitreya Bodhisattva at the [[Thikse Monastery]] in [[Ladakh]], India | sanskrit_name = मैत्रेय<br />(''Maitreya'') | devanagari_name = मैत्रिय <br />(''Maitreya'') | pali_name = मेत्तेय्य<br />(''Metteyya'') | bengali_name = মৈত্রেয় বুদ্ধ <br />(''Moitreyo Buddho'') | hindi_name = मैत्रेय बुद्ध <br />(''maitrey buddh'') | tamil_name = மைத்ரேய புத்த <br />(''Maitrēya putta'') | telegu_name = మైత్రేయ బుద్ధ <br />(''Maitrēya bud'dha'') | kannada_name = ಮೈತ್ರೇಯ ಬುದ್ಧ <br />(''Maitrēya bud'dha'') | odia_name = ମ it ତ୍ରେୟ ବୁଦ୍ଧ | sinhala_name = මෛත්‍රී බුදුන් <br />(''Maithri Budun'') | chinese_name = 彌勒菩薩<br />弥勒菩萨<br />([[Pinyin]]: ''Mílè Púsa'') | cyrillic_name = Майдар, Асралт<br />(''Mayidar'', ''Asaraltu'') | japanese_name = {{ruby-ja|弥勒菩薩|みろくぼさつ}} <br />([[romaji]]: ''Miroku Bosatsu'') | tibetan_name = <big><big>བྱམས་པ་</big></big><br /><small text>([[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: ''byams pa'')<br />([[THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription|THL]]: ''Jampa'')</small text> <br /><big><big>བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་</big></big><br /><small text>([[Wylie transliteration|Wylie]]: ''byams pa'i mgon po'')<br />([[THL Simplified Phonetic Transcription|THL]]: ''Jampé Gönpo'')</small text> | khmer_name = សិអារ្យមេត្រី, អរិយមេត្តយ្យ | khmer-Latn = se-aa-meetrei, a-ri-yeak-meet-tai | korean_name = 미륵보살<br />彌勒菩薩<br />([[Revised Romanization of Korean|RR]]: ''Mireuk Bosal'') | thai_name = พระศรีอริยเมตไตรย<br />({{RTGS|''Phra Si Ariya Mettrai''}}) | lao_name = ມັນເຮັດໃຫ້ພຣະພຸດທະເຈົ້າ | malay_name = Buddha Maitreya | indonesian_name = Buddha Maitreya | vietnamese_name = 彌勒菩薩<br />(''Di lặc Bồ Tát'') | mongolian_name = {{MongolUnicode|ᠮᠠᠢᠢᠳᠠᠷᠢ<br />ᠠᠰᠠᠷᠠᠯᠲᠤ}} | burmese_name = အရိမေတ္တေယျဘုရား <br />([[MLCTS]]: ''a.ri. metteyya bhu.ra:'')<br />([[International Phonetic Al