For every true teaching there are many false teachings.
Think about how many people claim to be representing "Jesus" and doing things that are the opposite of his teachings.
Maitreya is an ancient buddhist name and a very benevolent Being. Has nothing whatsoever to do with the Benjamin Creame dude or the turban guy and is not going to be showing up and leading the world astray, and if a guy named Maitreya does show up in some spaceship or something along with a Jesus clone, which you never know how these things are going to go down that's for sure... then yah, that would definitely be an anti-christ I would agree on that one...
However,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya read here about historical Maitreya the spiritual Being.
As with the second coming of Jesus, the coming of Maitreya, spoken about in the Eastern world, is not the coming of some dude, it is the coming of the Christ and Buddha consciousness to planet earth.
Those who are looking for the outer saviour may very well be duped by the anti-christ. Those who look for the inner saviour, who seek and find, will be reborn as a caterpillar into a butterfly.
NO - Buddhism is not "Satan's" religion. "Satan's" religion, is whatever keeps you locked in a death grip of fear where you stop from remembering who you are and worship the false god outside of you rather claiming your rightful role as a co-creator with the infinite and the Son or Daughter of God that you truly are.
There is a huge amount of dis-info around truth. The fact is, when you become enlightened you don't disapear, you move up to a higher level in the classroom of infinity. There are many who have graduated to the level fo schoolroom teachers of planet earth, they are in the ascended realm.
You see this in Jesus story when he talks to the two light beings in the gospel.
There are Ascended Beings, there are Ascended Masters, they are the schoolroom teachers of planet earth plane and simple... At some point, we will see that and learn to work with the LOGOS, the Light, the Beings of the Light who are ascended, to help bring heaven to earth. This is part of the puzzle of truth whether you 'believe it or not!"
However, truth is truth. Setting the record straight here sharing some of my understandings, for if you have a light, you should not hide it under a rock.
Lord Maitreya is a planetary Buddha and a Being of infinite Light. Simple fact.