Maitreya

The first instrument Maitreya played was the drums at age two, moving on to keyboards by six and acoustic guitar at eight.

While Maitreya wrote the words, they came after a long email exchange with Chater about his journey through addiction and disease, and the ideas the album would be exploring.

This sacred Buddhist temple complex on the banks of the Indus River is unique for its art, which includes frescos, wood carvings and a 17-foot-high painted statue of a four-armed Bodhisattva Maitreya.

He believed the Maitreya, also known as the “World Teacher” and “Head of our Spiritual Hierarchy,” would bring peace, equality and justice to the world.

Proclaiming herself an incarnation of the Maitreya Buddha, she shored up her power by imprisoning members of the Tang imperial line and had many political opponents exiled or killed.