Messiah

CRITICAL: 基督 (transliteration of ‘Christos’) is the CUV standard, used far more than the direct transliteration 弥赛亚 (mísàiyà). NEVER conflate with 弥勒 (Mílè, Maitreya) — the future Buddha of Chinese Buddhist eschatology expected to appear in a future age to save the world, historically invoked by Chinese folk millenarian movements. Christ is the one Messiah who has already come, fulfilling specific Jewish covenant promises, not one of several expected future world-saviors.