Maitreya was residing in the Tushita heaven, situated between the heaven of Yama and the heaven of Nirmanarati. There also resided the Bodhisattva Svetaketu (Pali: Setaketu, white flag), before being reborn on earth as Siddhartha Gautama. There also dwells Manjushri Buddha, Buddha of Wisdom, who teaches the emptiness of the samsaric objects of existence, which is known as the doctrine of Emptiness. It was then that Tara Devi appeared and whispered in Maitreya's ear "the time for your rebirth has come". Upon hearing this a golden cloud enveloped the bodhisattva and this was discharged in the form of pranic rain to incarnate as a baby on Earth in November 1956.