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Comment by Davy on March 17, 2013 at 4:57pm

Comment by doone on February 16, 2013 at 8:34am

Jolly 

The history of the Smiling or Happy Buddha can be traced back to the Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha that is predicted to succeed Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. 

The names Smiling, Fat, Laughing or Happy Buddha are just Western nomenclature for this figure. He is usually depicted with a bald head, wide smile, a huge exposed belly, and always carrying a bag. It is because of the everpresent bag that the Chinese call him Budai, meaning calico or cloth bag. 

Whatever the actual origins of the Happy Buddha, history records that his influence has been tremendous in Asia. Buddhism, Taoism and Zen Buddhism have all embraced the Happy Buddha as the embodiment of happiness and prosperity. 

Panjiayuan Markets
Beijing, China 

See more images from China on my Flickr site HERE…..

Comment by doone on January 27, 2013 at 10:26pm

Zoom

Sometimes, the adolescent elephant will throw itself upon the ground as a sign of extreme emotional distress, commonly known as a “tantrum.”

Comment by doone on January 11, 2013 at 6:10am

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Comic by: Nobody- (via Zen Pencils)

Comment by doone on March 25, 2012 at 7:39pm

Why reinvent the wheel?

Filed under: Uncategorized — David Hume @ 6:09 am

Alain de Botton and Robert Wright have a long discussion about atheism and the “need for religion” (or at least the exoteric accoutrements of religion). But the conversation seems ahistorical. Confucianism seems to address many of their “wants”; that is, a moralistic framework that makes positive claims with communitarian presuppositions which are not necessarily contingent upon supernatural agents.

Comment by doone on March 18, 2012 at 3:05pm

"The Great White Buddhist"

Stefany Anne Golberg remembers Henry Steel Olcott, an American Civil War colonel who spread Buddhism in the late 19th century. Why the religion appealed to his American roots: 

The Buddha’s writings were not a demand of faith but rather an invitation to discovery — to which everyone had equal access — through practice, reason, and meditation. ... Buddhism taught tolerance and non-violence — the vegetarian Civil War veteran was a firm believer in respect for all life. He liked the message of self-reliance in Buddhism; it felt comfortably American. He liked, too, the emphasis on morals and will. In Buddhism, Olcott saw an Eastern philosophy entirely compatible with modern liberal Western values and thinking. Here's what he had been looking for: a democratic, methodological, procedural path to the Truth.

He may well be proven right in the long, long term.

Comment by doone on March 18, 2012 at 10:49am

Festival “Loi Krathong” in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Mar. 18, 2012

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