This free smiling Buddha tattoo design is called
Maitreya (
Sanskrit),
Metteyya (
Pāli), or
Jampa (
Tibetan), is a future
Buddha of this world in
Buddhist eschatology. In some Buddhist literature, such as the
Amitabha Sutra and the
Lotus Sutra, he is referred to as
Ajita Bodhisattva.