Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c75.s3.39

v2.c75.s3.39

The Buddhist religious texts say that the duty of the Divine Bodhisattvas is to do the work of a Mortal Buddha during the period between the disappearance of one Buddha and the coming of the next. ‘Thus’ says Bhattacharya—vide I. B I. p. 8: ‘Gautama Buddha has disappeared and at least 4000 years after his disappearance Maitreya Buddha who is now in the Tuṣita Heaven, would decend to earth. During he interval Padmapāṇi Bodhisattva or Avalokiteśvara is doing the duties of a Mortal Buddha and thus he will continue so long as the Bhadrakalpa or the cycle of Admitābha continues.’