Friday, July 16, 2010

The sleeping Buddha and its meaning

Almost all designers know that when a customer asks for a room that is relaxing and beautiful, there is only one way forward with this work, and it is in the Middle East. Think about the characteristics of water, Bonzai, graceful flowers, many beautiful and unique sculptures. You can add a touch of the Orient in many ways, but one of the simplest is to add a statue of Buddha. There are hundreds of known positions and three different orientations of these statues, which are intended to be a plan that is ideal for almost any environment, even when it is an unusual shape or size.



Buffets and almost all desktops seem to cry for a seated Buddha, gardens and balconies would be appropriate for the Standing Buddha, no matter how many areas require a much larger extent than high. Here is an excellent theme of decoration is a reclining Buddha.



shares many features 32 statues of Buddha is said to have been the physical characteristics of the first Buddha Gautama was born around 563 BC. Also known as "Thirty-Two signs of a great man", and include:



• Flat feet

• a pointed head

• beautiful golden fur

• Long fingers the same length

• Long toes all the same length

• a dress draped over one shoulder

• Long earlobes



Buddha was not in favor of representing their own terms, so the real question is, in fact, why are there so many statues of Buddha?



It seems that this could be another question that could be attributed to the Greeks, and especially a Greek Alexander the Great. When Alexander took India and Afghanistan, military head and artisans behind, and therefore included graphic design in this area had been heavily influenced by classical sculpture, and Greek ideas of gods and men. Alexander was known to enjoy the imitation of his own face, understand the value of the paintings and sculptures as products of propaganda.



This may be why India in Alexandria, with a part-Greek population and their links with the Greek tradition, was the first area to create the statues of Buddha. These proved to be very popular, and the idea spread with Buddhism itself, on the contrary, Islam as limited reproduction of the human form and had statues such as idolatry, many of the ancient statues of Buddha and beautiful in this area has been destroyed.

In general, there are a few well-defined missions for these sculptures, which refer to different ideas or events in Buddha's life.



But most important is the underlying tranquility of the Buddha. There are two versions. One shows the Buddha with his head in his hand. This is the sleeping Buddha, but others like the most important, where the Buddha's feet rest together, symbolizes the day when Buddha entered Nirvana.



At the age of 80 had the Buddha for a moment to rest and announced to his followers that would soon become parinirvana, the condition that occurs when the body of a person who has made a total raise awareness or disappear over time. He ate his last meal and after that was very wrong.He asked his followers on what problems they had and no one gave them their last instructions."All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence." Convention says that when his body was placed among the trees Chamber, the plants flowered, though it was the time of year.



This is the time symbolized by the reclining Buddha statue. In Thailand, the most common form shows the Buddha with legs crossed and his left hand in her lap, while the right places on earth, with palms facing in at a place called "Calling the Earth to Witness" and refers to the accuracy of the Buddha's enlightenment.

Whatever your room usually a statue of Buddha, which are associated, providing a sense of calm and tranquility to their world and surroundings.

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