Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@DalrympleWill 1/ We might expect #ThichNhatHanh’s averral that the next Buddha, #Maitreya, “might not take the form of an individual, but a community,” reflected, naturally, in evolving representations of the form. The universal sangha, as fluid, syncretic, planetary archetype, for example.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 Mar 2021

Thread. 1/ Having fun with the just-released, cloud-based AI app, Deep Nostalgia. Here, animating a statue of the Maitreya Buddha in Thiksey monastery, Ladakh.

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Quoted by@nils_gilman end/ "Connectionist models are ultimately evolutionary." - Daniel Dennett. 'In Buddhist representations, Maitreya holds a vessel of the waters of enlightenment, waiting to sprinkle the world until it is at its worst ebb of delusion and violence. Only then is the world ready.'Quoted by@artistklee Cosmic Composition, 2022