Don't people like Buddha appear in modern times?

There are monks and people who aren't monks who have had the same experience as Buddha. I think that law has been passed down without mistake for over 2,500 years since the time of the Buddha.
If you have an encounter with an enlightened master, you can use that as an opportunity to practice ascetic practices.

To be honest, I think there are very few people that do that now. However, there are no mistakes.
Enlightenment is what the Buddha has noticed, so there must be people all over the world who have found such truths.

I took a look at your question.
I think people are made by various factors such as the environment. For example, in India during the time when Buddha was alive, it was an age where status discrimination determined by birth called caste was prominent. Based on the slogan “equality of the four people,” Buddha was active, saying “people are not determined by birth, but by what they think and act after they are born.” If there were no caste, Buddhism might not have been born, and the absurdity of caste probably had a big impact on Buddha's personality development.
Various absurdities such as war and persecution exist even in modern times. After all, I think there are people who think and exist like Buddha in such an environment. However, that person is not necessarily a religious person, and even if they are religious, it may not be long before their name becomes known.

　There are people like Buddha today, but people's lives have changed since when Shakyamuni (Buddha) was preached, and the human mind has taken a completely different shape. Regarding funerals in Japan, funerals have actually been visited by many people in the neighborhood since ancient times, but now we are really in a situation where family funerals and direct burials are being held. This is a way of thinking about Buddha's death after suffering, but in India, Thailand, etc., monks like Buddha are protected by Buddha's teachings. My denomination is the Jodo Shinshu sect, and I practice through social life, and I help those who are suffering through society, and I pass on my teachings in a different form from Buddha's.
Let me add that the reality is that even high priests at temples such as Mount Hiei and Mount Koya cannot avoid the suffering of Buddha's four pains, but there are cases where people often worship for safe delivery, traffic safety, etc., but in our Jodo Shinshu, it's completely opposite to this teaching, and it's about how we can live our lives in the midst of suffering. I think religion is where we go.
Thank you very much for your kind words.
Were you a disciple of the Jodo Shinshu sect? I think Amida Nyorai, who is our principal image now, the founder of the sect Shinran Shonin, Rennyo Shonin, and the Seven High Priests. I think meeting you is not in person or on the internet, but rather being able to listen to them through missionaries, documents, etc. Also, I think it would be a good idea to feel free to talk about your thoughts to the chief priest, etc. Unlike other sects, the Jodo Shinshu sect is something we practice in our lives. Let me listen to the temple, and it is important that I listen to it. Gassho

Myamori-sama

This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.

Buddha Nyorai, who has attained enlightenment in the same way as Buddha, certainly disappeared in this world after the fall of the Buddha.

Next, like Buddha Buddha, who has attained enlightenment, will appear in this world, and it is said that Miroku Bosatsu will descend from Kabutsuten after 5.67 billion years. However, there is also a theory that it is actually a little earlier, 576 million years from now, and even faster.

Of course, even if Buddha or Buddha is absent during that time, the Buddha's teachings are the Buddhist scriptures, so we can rely on the Buddhist scriptures and work hard on the sacrament of sentient beings towards enlightenment and nirvana.

Therefore, even during this time, it is of course possible that there are thankful and precious people like Bodhisattvas who are firmly committed to the sacrament of being sentient.

Also, if the Buddhist practice progresses to a certain extent, you will actually be able to see Buddha and Bodhisattva in person, and it is possible that you will be taught directly.

In any case, the Buddha made a will at the end of his life, saying “Jitomyo/ Dharma Demon” (based on self and based on the law).

Based on Buddhism, I want to firmly become a great being myself and strive to be able to work on the sacrament of being sentient (so that all people can be saved).

Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho

Rather than an enlightened person, I mean as a religious hero. In that sense, it's probably an age where it's hard to show up.
It's the same as the soccer J.League. It seems that today's players, who have been familiar with soccer since childhood and are able to do cutting-edge training even when they become adults, are so skilled that they are incomparable to the players when the J.League was founded. However, there were a lot of star players at the time of launch.
why? It seems that this is because professional soccer has gone from an era of individual matches to an era of group tactics.

The monk's world is the same. Personal heroes such as Buddha and Kukai played an active role, and their disciples were organized, divided and specialized, and eventually it became an era of 350,000 Japanese Buddhist monks and one Buddha.
The sutra that Saicho got into trouble with “I want you to lend it to me” and “No, I won't lend it” to Kukai-sama is a volume called Rishubun (Rishubun) of the Hannya Sutra. At the time, there was only one person in Japan, Kukai-sama, and it was a very valuable and greatest sutra. However, we are now in an age where you can read online for free. This is a terrible thing.

When I practiced Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia, I asked a local monk, “Have the Buddha's “Five and Seventy-Five Teachings” been introduced to Japan? I was asked. I said, “Huh? Is it the fifth-place seventy-five law? It's a dimension where the transmission and nothing can be read on Wikipedia... what is that??” Guessing the true meaning of the question, I was stuck with answers.

Surprisingly, modern Japanese Buddhism has the best environment whether you look at history vertically or horizontally. However, since this is not “someone's achievement,” and since it is the result of Japanese Buddhism as a whole by countless nameless Buddhists, no religious heroes are born.

The general public's senses will become the second stage when divided into three stages.
First of all, when people aren't well educated, they “don't know what it is, but I believe because the monk said it” and “I don't do anything bad because the Buddha is watching.”
Once the next level of education is complete, “Which is better, me or my boy!?” “Is the Buddha watching? Aren't you stupid?” It will be.
And thirdly, when it came to the intelligence level, “I want to meet even more wonderful monks” and “Buddhism, which can be seen when you read the metaphor backwards, completely changed! It will be.

Now is the time to see if it is possible to move from the second stage to the third stage due to technological innovation in online missionary education, but I sincerely hope that war will break out and not retreat.