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Buddha Statues from Thailand, Indonesia, India, and Nepal. We think you will find our Buddha Statues to feature the best detail and highest quality. Being a Buddhist from Thailand myself, I am dedicated to providing you with only highest quality Buddha statues I can find. We believe the quality of these Sand Stone, Wood,and Metal statues will appeal to those interested in Buddhism and mediation. Plus we bring our statues into the US directly, so we are able to offer them at extremely affordable prices. We have seen other people selling the same Buddha statues that we carry for up to three times the price!
Our Buddha statues come in two major types, the first being bronze or brass Buddha statues. Our other style is made of a unique Bone Resin, and you can view those bone resin Buddha statues by scrolling to the bottom of this page.
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At the bottom of this page you will find a brief introduction to Buddhism, plus links to other sites with information on Buddha Statues and Buddhism. But for even more information, please visit our Buddhism and Hinduism Resource Area (you will still stay on our web site). Also visit these other informative Web sites, Qingzhou Buddha Statues, or at Buddhism at About.com, or about the Bamyan Buddha Statues destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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An Introduction to Buddhism
Buddhism is a philosophy espoused by Prince Siddhartha approximately 530 BCE, which focused on understanding the path to salvation in a world of constant suffering. Siddhartha was given the name the Buddha, which means "enlightened one," by his followers.
There are two main branches of Buddhism with different practices, but they all have some fundamental similarities. They believe that Siddhartha was the son of a powerful king, and that his father brought him up surrounded by all the pleasures of the world, isolated in the palace, so that Siddhartha would never know sorrow. The prince grew up, married, and had a child, always surrounded by luxury.
But one day, the prince rode through the city outside the palace, and he witnessed suffering for the first time. He saw an elderly man, a diseased man, a corpse and a hermit. The first three sights filled him with dread and despair, while the last sight filled him with peace. For the first time he experienced unhappiness and he wondered why.
Siddhartha slipped out of his palace in the middle of the night, leaving behind his wife and son, and became a hermit determined to find the cause of suffering. He met sages and yogis, meditated and contemplated for six years. He performed great austerities in order to understand the path to enlightenment.
After six years of searching, Siddhartha came to the understanding that "unhappiness is the result of desire and attachment to material items." That is when he became known as the Buddha.
The Buddha taught that everything changes in the world, yet desire makes us crave for eternal material pleasures. When the pleasures wither away, we are unhappy. True happiness arrives when one accepts that change is the ultimate reality of the material world, and that nothing lasts forever.
The Buddha taught that understanding this led to enlightenment, and that enlightenment is the path to breaking free from samsara or material existence. This breaking free is called nirvana.
The teachings of the Buddha are often referred to as the Dharma, but this is also often translated as the Truth or the Wheel of the Law.
Here are some more great links that are leated to Buddha Statues and Buddhism in General. But of course you can always e-mail us if you have any questions:
The Tallest Buddha Statue in Sri Lanka
World's Greatest Statues
Includes the Wat Pho Buddha Statue in Thailand
Reconstructing the Bamiyan Buddha Statues of Afghanistan
Collectable Buddha Statues from Thailand
The History of the Buddhist Statues at Bamian
Buddha Images and Statues Survive the Tsunami
Buddhist Temples and Statues in Thailand
Photos of several different statues at various Thai Buddhist Temples.
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