Who is this fat Buddha?
I'm an Indian and most of the Buddhist statues in India, Tibet, and south east asia show Buddha as a very well built or sometimes skinny man. Buddha was an Indian prince trained in many form of combat. In India almost all his original disciple described him as a good looking man, with a very fit body from the royal family. However a fat, chinese looking version of Buddha is popular in China, it also seems to extremely popular in the west. So, who is this fat laughing Chinese Buddha?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddharta_Gautama#Physical_characteristics
Thanks Marc the Red...
But why do so many people in the world consider this chinese monk to be Siddharta Gautama, the founder of Buddhism?
He is not Siddharta Gautama.
He is Mí Lè Fó (彌勒佛), often assoicated with Maitreya, one of the future Buddhas.
This one is quite populare b/c he is said to bring happyness, wealth and laughter. The Chinese know that he is not Siddharta Gautama, and you can also find many statues of him in China.
Items Recently Purchased From This Site:
Old Tibet Buddhist purple Bronze Yellow Jambhala Buddha Statue, Old Tibet Tibetan Buddhist 24K Gilt Shakyamuni Buddha Statue, 7" Old Tibet Buddhist 24K Gold Gilt Green Tara Buddha Statue, 11" Old Tibet Tibetan 24K Gold Gilt Shakyamuni Buddha Statue, Rare Tibet Silver Carved Buddha Statue AAA+, 4" Exquisite Nepal Tibet Hand Painted Blessing Mudra Yoda Meditate Buddha Statue, Wonderful chinese tibet bronze four face buddha statue, Tibet Silver Gilt Bronze Manjushri Consort Yab-yum Buddha Statue 5.5'' , RARE CHINESE TIBET TURQUOISE COLOUR CARVING BUDDHA STATUE HOT~, 20"Tibet Lhasa Sacred 100% Bronze 24K Gold Yellow Jambhala mammon Buddha Statue, 33"Huge Tibet Sacred 100% Bronze 24K Gold ox Dragon Tara Kwan-yin Buddha Statue, 17"Tibet Lhasa Sacred pure Bronze Gold Eight treasures sakyamuni Buddha Statue, Tibet Temple Sacred 100% pure Bronze 24K Gold Three Sakyamuni Buddha Statue Set, Tibet Buddhism Sacred 100% Bronze 24K Gold Gild Amitayus Buddha Buddha Statue, Tibet Buddhism Fane Classic Pure Bronze 24K Gild arhat Milarepa Buddha statue , Tibet Temple 100% Bronze 24K Gold Padmasambhava Bodhisattva master Buddha Statue, Tibet Tibetan Buddhism pure Bronze 24K Gold Mahakala Buddha Head Statue , 20"Tibet Monastery pure Bronze Gold refined Carved Shakyamuni Buddha Statue , 5"Tibet pure Bronze 24K Gold Gilt Four armed Elephant Wealth God Buddha statue, 5.5"Tibet Monastery Classical Bronze 24K Gild Guan Yin Bodhisattva Buddha statue, Tibet Fane Classical Pure Bronze 24k Gild Yellow Jambhala Wealth Buddha Statue, Tibet Buddhism Pure Bronze 24K Gild Guhyasamaja Kalachakra Tantric Buddha statue, 19"Tibet Fane Pure Bronze Gold Yellow Jambhala Sakyamuni Kwan-Yin Buddha statue, Old Tibet Tibetan Purple Bronze Amitayus Buddha Statue, 15" Old Tibet Tibetan Gilt Bronze Arhat Lohan Buddha Statue, 12" Old Tibet Tibetan 24K Gold Gilt 4 Buddhas Stupa Pagoda Statue, Wonderful chinese tibet silvering four face buddha head statue, Old Tibet Tibetan Gold Gilt Silver Maitreya Buddha Statue, Old Tibet Tibetan Bronze Amitabha Buddha Shrine Statue, 7.7" Old Tibet Tibetan Bronze Medicine Buddha Statue,
