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Sara Roberts
The laughing Buddha statue is one of the most popular good luck charms or fengshui statues that are kept at homes, business places and also altars. Thisportrayal of Buddha was inventedin China and is chastely a Chinese inspiration. Nobody can find thisplump, laughing Buddha in any other culture be it India, Cambodia, Indonesia or Thai.
This cheerfuland plump Buddha is based on a peculiar Chinese Ch'an (Zen) monk who lived in China about 1,000 years ago. He is an important part of Buddhist as well as Shinto culture owing to his compassionate and welcoming nature. He was known as the Friendly or Loving One and also a reincarnation of the bodhisattva.
The laughing Buddha statue portrays a stout, laughing bald man wearing robes with a bigbare pot...
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