why is there a skinny buddha and a fat buddha and why did how did people convert him from skinny to fat
2007-07-22 18:37:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ok Fat Buddha is a Chinese thing and being fat meant you were happy and were good luck.
Since China's peasants were poor and super skinny.
2007-07-22 18:41:45 · answer #1 · answered by Skeptic123 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fat Buddha is an older God of luck. The real Buddha was an enlightened human. In fact there are several human enlightened Buddhas. My favorite was a girl whose father was a fisherman, when she saw a typhoon approaching she put on her Jesus shoes and walked on the water to the boat and then calmed the storm to save her father. I think of her every time I hear "And she was" by talking heads.
Blessed Be!
2007-07-23 01:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by ♥Gnostic♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two different Buddhas. The original Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama) did not indulge himself and was probably thin. The fat Buddha you see is a Chinese Buddha, Hotei.
2007-07-23 04:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While in search of wisdom, the young Buddha used to practice fasting which made him very weak and thin . After many days of dong so, he realized that fasting only was leading him nowhere near reaching wisdom and he broke fast and used to take normal food later on . The thin and fat Buddha may be the state of his health in those phase of his life.
2007-07-23 01:51:23 · answer #4 · answered by Swapan G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddha was a skinny man, he was a beggar and did not over indulge himself.
Then, followers (i believe it was the chinese) made him fat, because they wanted to show that he was someone to exemplify, someone to follow - but to do that they wanted to make him seem prosperous and happy, so others would want to follow his path. That's why he's fat and smiling - all the time. Cuz who wants to follow someone's path if they just thought he was a skinny, hungry, poor beggar?
(Also, my buddhist bf wants me to add that it's symbolic that after you are englightened, you will become happy, and being fat back then was a sign of prosperity...)
2007-07-23 01:43:03 · answer #5 · answered by flirtyme27 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Chinese Buddha is fat. fat is a symbol of wealth.
2007-07-23 01:54:14 · answer #6 · answered by my ki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in a location where a lot of people went hungry, the fat man represents good fortune and prosperity.
2007-07-23 01:42:32 · answer #7 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he flunked out of Jenny Craig
2007-07-23 01:41:44 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Morgana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he filled with so much wisdom.
2007-07-23 01:41:41 · answer #9 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its not important.
it doesnt even matter if he really existed or not.
the only thing that matters is this.
2007-07-23 01:45:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋