Pictures of interesting Buddhist art.

The 1000-armed Kaun Yin (Buddha of Infinite Compassion Dance. I think this is actually part of China's 'Art Ensemble of the Disabled" - all of the performers are deaf.

― Bob Six, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

That was truly beautiful! I guess they have a conductor to keep them in time?

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

(Brief bit of background)

Formed in 1992, Beijing Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe has been devoted to nurturing talented young people with disabilities throughout China.

The deaf-mute performers, aged between 14 and 19, learn their art the hard way - through sign language with the trainers. Their determination makes up for their physical disability and each move is practiced exactly 100 times to get it right. It has taken the troupe a year to master such an intricate dance, spending an average of six to 10 hours a day in rehearsals.

― Bob Six, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Buddhist trance dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3JLbFvrZ3Q

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.snowlion.com/snowlion/images/database/trip/Buddha_at_Deer_Park_.jpg_115006965743f4f6d872976.jpg

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://eternalvalues.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/buddha.jpg

by Octavio Ocampo

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.buddha-images.com/PathomChedi/pathomchedi5.jpg

A Thai version of ascetic Buddha.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.buddha-images.com/Wat_Benchamabophit/WatBen_26.jpg

Walking Buddha, gesture of imparting fearlessness.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/sakya/sakyamuni10.jpg

Sakyamuni Buddha.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/amt/amt9.jpg

utmost bliss world

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Buddhist trance dance looks suspiciously similar to hippie shuffle.

― nickalicious, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

A little more sophisticated, surely! But you're onto something.

http://www.fodian.net/world/manjusri/manjusri10.jpg

Manjusri Boddhisattva, riding a lion.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/manjusri/manjusri20.jpg

Another Manjusri, so pretty I can barely look at it.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/poeyin/px12.jpg

http://www.fodian.net/world/poeyin/px22.jpg

Samantabhadra Boddhisattvas.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/gwoonyarm/gy7.jpg

http://www.fodian.net/world/gwoonyarm/gy2.jpg

http://www.fodian.net/world/gwoonyarm/gy_drgn.gif

(!!)

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattvas.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

OMG the clouds in the 2nd Manjusri!

― nickalicious, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I really love that style.

http://www.fodian.net/world/vajrapani/vajrapani_3in1_0.jpg

You really mustn't fuck with this Vajra-pani! Peep all his gear!

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/h3s/h3s7.jpg

Defeating three time vectors ftw.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/Yamantaka/Yamantaka26.jpg

Yamataka: If the bus is too full, he is going to ride a bull.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

*Yamantaka

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/ho/ho0.jpg

"The flower opens and the Buddha appears."

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/rainbow/rainbow2.jpg

More rainbow body! I love it.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/secret/body_3c.jpg

More energy channels.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/secret/birth.jpg

Reproduction.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.perpetualkid.com/productimages/lg/NOVL-0422.jpg

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

And we all shine on.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/directx_user/gallery/rebirth_wheel.jpg

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/directx_user/gallery/prayer_wheel2.jpg

Tibetan prayer wheel

― Ol Bertie Dastard, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.shambhala.org/images/rigden200.jpg

i have a copy of this thanka

― jhøshea, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

here is mine when it was still in nepal

http://i10.tinypic.com/7wjohp5.jpg

― jhøshea, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

What is that Mudra?!

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

It's beautiful, jho.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

i believe that is the turning the wheel of dharma mudra

― jhøshea, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ohhhhh!

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

here u go read all abt it http://www.shambhala.org/about_rigden.php

― jhøshea, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

When I was learning about those that was the only one without a pictured example, and the description was totally o_O.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

ha!

― jhøshea, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

roxymuzak u maek the best threads

― J0hn D., Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Thanking u!

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 January 2008 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

manjusri is my dude. actually considering getting a manjusri tat at some point.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

^^ such a good idea

― Wrinklepaws, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

damn son i thought we was fam

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/LPIPOD/BN4574_6~Buddha-Statue-in-Tree-at-Ayuthaya-Historical-Park-Ayuthaya-Historical-Park-Thailand-Posters.jpg

Buddha Tree in Aythaya Historical Park, Thailand

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mrrena.com/images/Sidd.jpg

From Wat Dhammaram, cutting his hair.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

RAINBOW BODY!!

http://www2.bremen.de/info/nepal/Gallery-1/Buddhas/1-25/rbw-buddha-1.jpg

http://www.dharma-haven.org/five-havens/rainbow-buddha.jpg

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.twip.org/photo/southeast-asia/laos/photo-6220-18-11-06-06-49-41.jpg

Pink Buddha at Xi Boun Heuang temple, Luang Prabang

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fodian.net/world/vajrapani/vajrapani_3in1_0.jpg

why is this dude trying to catch a baseball?

― n/a, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

BEST RAINBOW BODY EVER!

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/th73.jpg

xpost, That's what you think when you see someone givin' the goat?!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

there is clearly a baseball in the upper-left corner of the picture!

― n/a, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

sorry i ruined this cool thread with a dumb joke

― n/a, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

BUDDHA TREE!!! is amazing

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

n/a, that is a moon!

And don't worry, it's not like it hadn't already been ruined!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://dusteye.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/buddha-sick-monk.jpg

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=62221&rendTypeId=4

A Buddha by Odilon Redon.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://bp0.blogger.com/_YTJBDUN8iSE/Ro-2rSeCtvI/AAAAAAAAANY/1niBbrN8mlY/s320/Buddha_with_monkey.jpg

Buddha lived in the forest. A monkey brought him some honey. Nice!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.exoticindiaart.com/buddha/white_tara_the_divine_mother_tc02.jpg

White Tara. She has eyes everywhere!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.btinternet.com/~andy.brouwer/p3.jpg

A Cambodian Buddha riding in a chariot. (Who's that other dude?!)

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.iol.ie/~taeger/bio/8green_tara_425x600-b_hj85.jpg

a Green Tara

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.smarttravelasia.com/images/LUANGSensoikharmJP.jpg

Red Buddha at Wat Sensoikharm, Luang Prabang.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://a471.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/99/l_effe1c38cec9e817d057e74dc3ba8d1e.jpg

Don't know!

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://i4.tinypic.com/6oerhp1.jpg

reclining buddha, bangkok

http://i13.tinypic.com/6p816o5.jpg

bayon, angkor, cambodia

http://i9.tinypic.com/6sjibyg.jpg

stupa full of skulls, killing fields, phenom penh, cambodia

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://i10.tinypic.com/8a21g8k.jpg

boudhanath stupa, kathmandu

http://i10.tinypic.com/6ld0du1.jpg

stupas at pullahari monastery, kathmandu

http://i5.tinypic.com/6yy6xdc.jpg

guru rinpoche cave, maritika, nepal

― jhøshea, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

awesome jho

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

some cool manjus(h)ris

http://buddhism.2be.net/Image:Manjusri.JPG
http://www2.bremen.de/info/nepal/objects/tsa-tsa-stamps/manjushri-tsa-tsa-1.jpg
http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/albuquerque/full/49.jpg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://bp3.blogger.com/_XUkloHnuGwg/RuevW5t76PI/AAAAAAAAAOA/CgDGYqjviXY/s400/buddha+penis.jpg

Japan.

― roxymuzak, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Kamakura_Budda_Daibutsu_front_1885.jpg/450px-Kamakura_Budda_Daibutsu_front_1885.jpg

the Great Buddha in Kamakura

― roxymuzak, Friday, 16 January 2009 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Bodhidarma.jpg

“Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your nature and become Buddha”.
Bodhidarma scroll by Hakuin Ekaku

― roxymuzak, Friday, 16 January 2009 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

Yay, pictures of Bodhidharma are usually A+++ awesome. Always looks so fuckin' cranky.

― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Friday, 16 January 2009 23:26 (seventeen years ago)

hes totally eyeroll.gif there imo

― roxymuzak, Friday, 16 January 2009 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

Hahaha omfg, Bodhidharma dog:

http://www.xbd.com/images/Bodhi.jpg

― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Friday, 16 January 2009 23:29 (seventeen years ago)

manjusri is my dude. actually considering getting a manjusri tat at some point.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, January 13, 2008 7:40 PM (1 year ago)

lord manju = wolverine of bodhisattvas

― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

This buddha is amazing but I could only find this lousy picture. It's behind dude with rake, which is, like, totally appropriate in a zen setting but damn I'd like to find a good picture.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Ru1N7-kbeWI/SGzPNp6rmyI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/5fkK8nYSsWE/rob_garden.jpg

― butt-rock miyagi (rogermexico.), Sunday, 18 January 2009 00:30 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/fall97/images/bud1.gif

― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Saturday, 26 September 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://www.fodian.net/world/gwoonyarm/33/33_12.jpg

Water Moon Avalokitesvara

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 05:19 (thirteen years ago)

Disco Buddha (seen on Sarangoon Rd in Singapore). I went home with a 14" lighted disco Lord Ganesha.

http://i45.tinypic.com/nvrxj.jpg

― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:35 (thirteen years ago)

Also in Singapore, a 45 ft tall Las Vegas styled Buddha at the Sakya Muni Buddha Gaya Temple (Temple of 1,000 Lights). The attendant will enlighten Buddha upon a donation.

http://i46.tinypic.com/1ow3fm.jpg

― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 15:45 (thirteen years ago)

I am tired of people confusing Hotei and Buddah

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:28 (thirteen years ago)

Technically Hotei (the laughing, bald "Buddha") is usually a incarnation of Maitreya, the future buddha foretold to come when the world has forgotten the dharma. Gautama Buddha is the one usually depicted (either in ascetic or enlightened forms) with the hair bun/ushnisa symbolizing wisdom. So I think the confusion is understandable.

― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:20 (thirteen years ago)

I don 't think its acceptable. If the future Buddah is not here yet how can it answer out questions? Thats like saying Jesus is SAnta or something

― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:35 (thirteen years ago)

thats not crazy

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:44 (thirteen years ago)

so THATS why i never got those marbles as a kid

― zappi, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:55 (thirteen years ago)

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