On Buddhist Prophecy: Baha'u'llah as the Fifth Buddha

My friend Polin is from Cambodia originally but came to our community here in the United States about three years ago. His devotion to the Faith is enormous. He is not a new Baha'i, having embraced the Faith while still a teenager back in 1993, but he was born a Buddhist. He taught the Baha'i Faith vigorously in Cambodia and later in the Phillipines. His home town, Batambang, is today a center of growth for the Faith in Cambodia, extolled for its efforts as one of the "A Clusters" in the Baha'i world presently. This photo was taken by my wife Bonita during a visit with Polin to a local Buddhist temple on a holiday celebrated by Cambodian Buddhists and was featured on Bonita's blog previously.

[Baha'is recognize Baha'u'llah as] the Judge, the Lawgiver and Redeemer of all mankind, as the Organizer of the entire planet, as the Unifier of the children of men, as the Inaugurator of the long-awaited millennium, as the Originator of a new 'Universal Cycle,' as the Establisher of the Most Great Peace, as the Fountain of the Most Great Justice, as the Proclaimer of the coming of age of the entire human race, as the Creator of a new World Order, and as the Inspirer and Founder of a world civilization.

To Israel He was neither more nor less than the incarnation of the 'Everlasting Father,' the 'Lord of Hosts' come down 'with ten thousands of saints'; to Christendom Christ returned 'in the glory of the Father,' to Shi'ah Islam the return of the Imam Husayn; to Sunni Islam the descent of the 'Spirit of God' (Jesus Christ); to the Zoroastrians the promised Shah-Bahram; to the Hindus the reincarnation of Krishna; to the Buddhists the fifth Buddha....

He alone is meant by the prophecy attributed to Gautama Buddha Himself, that 'a Buddha named Maitreye, the Buddha of universal fellowship' should, in the fullness of time, arise and reveal 'His boundless glory'....

Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, in "Buddhist Prophecies Fulfilled."