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A Buddha figure portrays Siddhartha Gautama, the teacher who lived in northern India around the fifth century BCE and whose teaching became Buddhism. Each pose and hand gesture recalls a moment of his life: meditation, teaching, the night of his awakening. For Buddhists the figure is an object of respect and a reminder of the path he showed.

Tradition: Buddhism, from northern India
First figures: around the 1st century CE
Traditional place: raised and clean, never on the floor

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Kwadratowe Pudełko Twarz Buddy Czarne Grawerowane 10x10x4,2 cm Drewno mango £8.99Członkowie: +£0.45 zwrotu
Pudełko Twarz Buddy Kwadratowe Bielone 10x10x4,2 cm Drewno mango £8.99Członkowie: +£0.45 zwrotu
Słoik na Świecę Twarze Buddy Ogród Jadeit 2 szt. Szkło prasowane £10.95Członkowie: +£0.60 zwrotu
Zestaw Słoików na Świecę Budda 2 szt. Północna Szarość Szkło prasowane £10.95Członkowie: +£0.60 zwrotu
Słoik na Świecę Twarze Buddy Królewski Niebieski 2 szt. Szkło prasowane £10.95Członkowie: +£0.60 zwrotu
Figurka Buddy 0,5 m, antyczne złote wykończenie 50 cm · Włóknocement £128.95Członkowie: +£8.35 zwrotuMała ilość w magazynie
Figurka Buddy stojąca, 3 m wysokości, antyczne złoto, do wnętrz 300 cm · Włóknocement £1,600.00Członkowie: +£94.40 zwrotuMała ilość w magazynie
Figura Buddy w vitarka mudra w Stupie 1.5m Kamienne Brązowe Wykończenie 150 cm · Włóknocement £830.00Członkowie: +£48.85 zwrotuMała ilość w magazynie
Figura medytującego Buddy w stupie, 1,5 m, brązowo-złote wykończenie 150 cm · Włóknocement £830.00Członkowie: +£48.85 zwrotuMała ilość w magazynie
Figura Buddy w abhaya mudra na Lotosie 2m Turkusowo-Kamienna 200 cm · Włóknocement £1,400.00Członkowie: +£91.75 zwrotuMała ilość w magazynie
Figura Buddy nauczającego na lotosie, 2 m, antyczne złoto 200 cm · Włóknocement £1,400.00Członkowie: +£91.75 zwrotuMała ilość w magazynie

What the figure means

Buddha means the awakened one. It is the title given to Siddhartha Gautama, who taught in the Ganges plain some two and a half thousand years ago. A figure of him is a reminder of a person and of a path: that attention, kindness and patience can be practised, day by day.

For several centuries early Buddhist art showed him only through signs, such as a footprint, an empty seat or a tree. Figures in human form appeared around the first century CE, in Gandhara and Mathura in the north of the subcontinent.

Postures and hand gestures

A seated Buddha usually meditates. A standing one teaches or walks among people. A reclining Buddha, lying on his right side, shows his final passing, the parinirvana, and in Buddhist art it is a calm image of completion.

The hands, called mudras, tell the rest. Hands resting in the lap, palms up, mean meditation. A right hand reaching down to touch the earth recalls the night of his awakening, when he called the earth as his witness. A raised open palm is the gesture of fearlessness, and fingers joined at the chest mean teaching.

Placing a Buddha at home

Buddhist custom asks for a clean, raised place: a shelf, a low table or a home altar, never the floor and never the bathroom. Many people set the figure facing into the room or towards the door, with a little space around it for a candle, a flower or incense.

Choosing a figure

Choose the gesture you want to come back to: meditation for a reading corner, the earth-touching hand for a desk where decisions are made. The round, laughing figure with a sack is Budai, a monk of Chinese folklore, a different figure from the Buddha himself. Dust with a soft dry cloth.

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Najczęściej zadawane pytania

Is it disrespectful to have a Buddha statue if I am not Buddhist?

Most Buddhist teachers welcome it when the figure is kept with respect: raised, clean, and away from the floor and the bathroom. Avoid using it as a doorstop, a lamp base or a garden joke.

Which way should a Buddha statue face?

Custom varies from country to country. A common choice is facing into the room or towards the main door, at or above eye level when you sit. A clean, calm place matters more than the direction.

What does a reclining Buddha mean?

It shows the Buddha at the end of his life, lying on his right side as he passed into final nirvana. In Buddhist art it is a peaceful image of completion, not a sad one.

Is the laughing Buddha the same as the Buddha?

No. The laughing figure is Budai, a Chinese monk of folklore later linked with Maitreya, the Buddha to come. Siddhartha Gautama is usually shown slender and calm.