Nowhere near the end time Buddhism also has the concept of the "age of the final dharma." When the Maha-yana Buddhist community declined in India and believers and practitioners grew fewer, there arose the idea of the age of the final dharma.
佛教則是有「末法」的思想，大乘佛教曾在印度衰微，信仰者、修行者越來越少，於是出現末法時代的說法。