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The Sleeping Buddha and Its Meaning

Just about every designer knows that when a customer wants a room which is relaxed as well as tranquil, there’s just one route to choose the furnishings, and that’s East. Consider water features, bonzai, graceful flowers, beautiful screens and unusual statues. It is possible to add a feel of the orient in numerous ways, but one of the simplest is to add a sculpture of the Buddha. There are more than one hundred known positions and three distinct orientations for these statues, so there is bound to be one that will be ideal for virtually every room, even when it is an awkward shape or dimensions.

Buffets and desks all seem to cry out for a sitting Buddha, gardens and balconies may be perfect for the standing Buddha, but certain areas need an subject much broader than it is high. Here the optimal decor item is a reclining Buddha.

Just about all Buddha statues have 32 features said to have been bodily characteristics from the first Gautama Buddha who was born around 563 BC. These are also known as the ‘Thirty Two Signs of a Great Man’, and include:

•    flat feet

•    a pointed head

•    beautiful gold skin

•    long fingers the same length

•    long toes all the same length

•    a robe draped over one shoulder

•    long ear lobes

The Buddha wasn’t in favor of idolizations of his own form, and therefore the real question is, why are there any statues of the Buddha at all?

It appears this might be another matter that may be blamed on  the Greeks, and on one Greek in particular, Alexander the Great. When Alexander  occupied Afghanistan and Northern India, the leader kept many soldiers and artists behind, hence the artwork of that region was heavily influenced by classical sculpture, and by Greek ideas of Gods and mortals. Alexander was famous for taking pleasure in the imitation of his own face, understanding the worth of paintings and sculpture as items of propaganda.

This might be the reason why Alexandrian India, with a partly Greek population and ties to Greek culture, was the earliest area to create Buddha statues. These proved immensely popular and the idea spread with Buddhism itself, however as Islam restricted the representation of the human form and looked at such sculpture as idolatry,  many of the ancient and beautiful statues of the Buddha in that area have been destroyed.

Generally there are a couple of established poses for these sculptures that relate to certain concepts or occasions in the life of the Buddha.

But the most intriguing is the reclining pose of the Buddha. There are not one but two versions. The first shows the Buddha, relaxing with his head in his hand. This is the sleeping Buddha, but the alternative pose, where Buddha’s feet are resting together, represents the day the Buddha entered Nirvana.

At age 80, the Buddha sat down and informed his disciples he was about to enter parinirvana, the state that happens whenever the body of someone who has accomplished total awakening or enlightenment finally dies. He consumed his final meal and then grew to become strongly ill. He asked his followers for any questions that they had and when there were none he gave all of them his last directions. “All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.” Tradition says that when his body was put between the sala trees, the plants bloomed, though it was not the season.

This is the day commemorated by the reclining Buddha statue.  In Thailand the most frequent position shows the Buddha with legs crossed and with his left hand in his lap while the right points to the ground, palm inward in a pose called ‘Calling the Earth to Witness’ and relates to the exact of the Buddha’s enlightenment.

Whatever shape your area, right now there is a Buddha statue that will certainly match, delivering a sensation of peace and harmony to all your surroundings.

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