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
2006-07-16
04:51:27
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