why is the buddha always so fat?

Question

i thought he was suposed to symbolise the end of temptation, well it looks like he got too tempted by food, so why do people make fat buddha statues?

Answer 1

What you're referring to are the Chinese artistic renditions of the Buddha yet to come. Most other artistic displays of the Buddhas of the past aren't "fat".

Study Chinese art and Buddhism a bit from their perspective and you'll learn a great deal.

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Answer 2

Hundreds of Buddha idols made in first/second century found in various excavations in India do not show him fatty. He has a very well proportioned body, stout and well built. Creating fatty Buddha could be artwork of later day artists.

Answer 3

You must be thinking of the "Boddhisatva of Prosperity" or "The Kitchen God" and not the Buddha Gautama Siddhartha Sakyamuni who was a practiioner of moderation and monastic simplicity and basically meager vegetarian fare.
Most Buddhists saints/arhants or boddhisatvas are not depicted as corpulent

Answer 4

That is not The Buddha. The short fat guy is a Bodhisattva known as Hoe-ti, he is a transferred Chinese god of luck and good fortune.

Answer 5

That's not the Buddha.

Answer 6

wrong "buddha"... there is the indian one, whose teaching people remember, and the oriental one whose well rounded figure people remember.

Answer 7

he let himself go after he got married

Answer 8

because he sat on his *** and ate twinkies all day

Answer 9

it is supposed to be symbolic not realistic!