[Vocabulary] "The next to come"

[Inevitable]

​Hello!

can you please advise me about a meaning of this expression: "(He is fifth and) the next to come"?

David

 

[Rover_KE]

Welcome to the forum, David.

We can help you better if you tell us the context in which you found this sentence.

(Remember to start every sentence with a capital letter.)

 

[Inevitable]

Thank you Rover for your reply.

Is is a book about buddhism and I need a precise understanding in order to translate it into the Czech language as well as possible.

The whole sentence says: "The fifth out of the one thousand Buddhas of this fortunate age and the next to come."

 

[Tarheel]

Unless the reader is a Buddhist it is unlikely that he or she will understand what is meant by that. Therefore, additional context is needed.