**Notes**


visualization, and the highest grades of people are those who either cultivate the Samadhi of Buddha visualization or repentance as their method of practice. In their present body, they will succeed in seeing Maitreya. According to the quality of their mind, the image they see will either be grea<sup>t</sup> or small." (Sponberg and Hardacre 1988, pp. 94–95; Kitagawa 1988).

