Buddhas? Decades Ago?
If you're talking about Arhats (enlightened saints), yes. Buddhas,
nope.
But the next Buddha will only come a long time later, perhaps
millions or billions of years later.
So, the "Laughing Buddha" is not really a "Buddha". The "Laughing
Buddha" is a manifest of Maitreya Bodhisattva, he will be the next
buddha on planet Earth, but he is not to be mistaken as a Buddha
yet.
