How Did Buddha Gained So Much Inflluence?

[Rilles]

@MM1988 The Buddha wasn't fat, thats a confusion that has happened due to history, the "fat" one is actually Budai. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budai

[Ether]

@Prabhaker Ah ok. I understand.

 

Any more curious facts?

Edited March 9, 2018 by Ether
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[Prabhaker]

17 hours ago, MM1988 said:

How did the buddha become so fat? 

Statues of Buddha made in Japan and China are quite different from statues made in India. In India, Buddha's images have a small belly and a large chest. It is quite different in Japan and China; all his images in those countries have a large belly and a small chest. To us, Japanese and Chinese statues of Buddha look odd; we think they are misshapen and ugly. But in fact, it is the right thing; because when a man of silence like Buddha breathes, he breathes with his belly - which is the natural way of breathing.

Such an innocent person as Buddha cannot breathe with his chest, which is unnatural and artificial.

And when one breathes with his belly, the belly is bound to be large and bulging. So the large belly of Buddha's statue is symbolic. It might not have been so large actually, but it has to be depicted the way it has been depicted. And the reason is that a man like Buddha breathes with his belly, and he is as innocent as a child.

  Osho - In Search of the Miraculous Volume 1  

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