Why is Buddha sometimes depicted as weeping?

Question

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

The world is joy and the world is pain. The Buddha bares this sorrow. (Buddhist) This is the simplest way to answer. Best to you. They are often found in ancient graves as well. Yes, there are all types of Buddhas but this one is definitely weeping not laughing until he weeps. You can google them or whatever search engine you use. They are quite beautiful to look at as it's this very masculine figure just bent over weeping. It is all the balance of things as I said above. Joy and pain. He is also not a 'god' as someone had suggested. In Tibetan buddhism they might be seen as a divine, enlightened being but the Buddha and others are not 'gods'.
Best to you.

Answer 2

People have varied experiences in their worship of Buddha. Some have seen reclining Buddha, Sitting Buddha, Standing Buddha and weeping Buddha, Laughing Buddha all what can a vivid imagination give. But each of these is not without spiritual connotation or messages to understand. They are just similar to the Bleeding Heart of Jesus, Weeping BLood in the eyes of Mary, Sleeping Jesus, Jesus on the Cross.
The Weeping Buddha can be interpreted to His sorrows for the conditions of man whose level of spirituality is still living in the cycle of birth, death and rebirth because of ignorance of man's journey through life. Maybe His compassion is overwhelming.

Answer 3

If he is also depicted as emaciated and cross legged, it is representing the night he actually became enlightened where, after months of self flagellation and self imposed starvation, covering himself in his own excrement and chanting, he sat down and set in motion the wheel of the Law. This is how he looked when he became enlightened. If he is fat then it is the Buddha of the next age, Maitreya Buddha, and he would be laughing so much that he cries. He could also be weeping for the lilies so deep in the mud that have so far to go to feel the sun.

Answer 4

There is a weeping Buddha, a sleeping Buddha, standing, sitting, laughing, starving, corpulent, fat, thin. There is a Buddha for every-which-way you care to name. There is even a living Buddha (the Dalai Lama)

Answer 5

The last answer by Arkansas would be like saying some-one ran off with a statue of Jesus on the cross. Really you should stop and think before you write.

Answer 6

Because he has just looked in the mirror and discovered he had been eating too many pies!! Thats what started all the fasting malarky - trying to get rid of that belly. Make anybody cry that would

Answer 7

Some flavors of Buddhism do some pretty crazy stuff...

Possibly this was before enlightenment

Answer 8

Because he does not exist. Unless you can say he does on the counter at a local nail salon run by Buddhist.

He was short, bald and fat, maybe that's why he was crying.

What would happen if somebody ran off with him, just picked him up and ran, Would they say somebody ran off with my God. Or "My god get him back" .

My God lives inside me he is real because I feel him. I know he's real. He's not made with mans hands. You can't knock him off a shelf and break him.

Answer 9

you'd weep to, if you were in charge of this world.

Answer 10

He should be weeping. He is a religious idol that is sinful.