如来

Traditional form:

如來

Pinyin (reading):

rúlái

Definitions:

• tathagata (Buddha's name for himself, having many layers of meaning - Sanskrit: thus gone, having been Brahman, gone to the absolute etc)

Characters:

• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on

Traditional characters:

• 如 - as, as if, like, such as, supposing
• 來 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on