[lit-ideas] Re: Buddha's Gift
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:59:39 -0500
wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
:
: Thanks for the material on the Boddhisatva. But I now think the statue I have
: is
: of the Buddha himself. He's sitting cross-legged, holding a cylindrical box i
: n
: his lap. He wears a flowing robe and a medallion of some kind around his neck
: .
: His ears are as large as Spock's but they are not pointed. He looks quite
: serene. I'm thinking the box contains a gift, and, if so, what it is. Cheers,
I did a bit of Googling and found that there are quite a few examples
of statutes of what is called the "Offering Buddha" some of which seem
to look like the one that you describe.
I gave up before I found any explanation of the iconography associated
with the offering Buddha.
I hope that this helps.
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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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