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good looking man clad in full armour and headgear of a gen-

eral, standing and leaning upon an impressive looking sword or

gnarled staff with both hands, or he could be holding a sceptre-

shaped defensive weapon.

Just as Maitreya, who as a Bodhisattva, has earned the mark of

respect of a Buddha, Wei-To, though only a Deva or God, is

very often addressed as a Bodhisattva or ‘Wei-To P’usa’. is is

attributed to the prediction

that he will in the future

become the Buddha Rucika

or ‘Lou-Chi Fwo’, the last

of the thousand Buddhas

in our world period.

Since Vajrapani, a very

popular Tibetan Buddhist

Bodhisattva who is the

God of Rain, and also

known as the underbolt-

Bearer, also shares this

prediction, one thus finds

Wei-To being referred to as

him. However he has not

gained sufficient followers

to become a major Deity

in Buddhism. His birthday

falls on the 3rd day of the

6th month which is hardly

celebrated in a grand scale. A I  W-T

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