This stands in notable contrast to most other religious and philosophical traditions, which tend to focus on timescales of centuries or millennia at most, or alternatively posit an imminent end-times scenario.
Feels like the time of perils hypothesis (and associated imperatives to act and magnitude of reward scenario) popular with longtermists maps rather more closely to the imminent end times scenario common to many eras and cultures than Buddhist views of short and long cycles and an eventual[1] Maitreya Buddha...
Feels like the time of perils hypothesis (and associated imperatives to act and magnitude of reward scenario) popular with longtermists maps rather more closely to the imminent end times scenario common to many eras and cultures than Buddhist views of short and long cycles and an eventual[1] Maitreya Buddha...
there have also been Buddhists acting on the belief that the Maitreya was imminent or the claim that they were the Maitreya...