Buddhist Study

Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of Buddhism and is the figure of the statue of the Buddha presented. He was an Indian prince, of 563 to 483 BC Buddhism a religious philosophy that, unlike many other traditional religions do not live in a personal God, who believe our mistakes and benefits of our good deeds be punished separately. It was originally started as an atheistic philosophy. It is based on the Noble Eightfold Path and the Four Truths is based. The Buddha statue represents the “Awakened One”. The Four Noble Truths are: that suffering is part of life, is the desire of what causes the pain, the pain will stop when the need ceases, and the only way to beat the cravings and suffering, follow the Noble Eightfold Path.

The Noble Eightfold Path is:

Views of right, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and contemplation. As the law Enlightened Buddha statue represents the values ​​of others. The individual is not recognized in Buddhism. Everything that happens to individuals based on an impersonal moral “karma” is based. Once a person follows all the steps on the Noble Eightfold Path, they achieve a pure enlightened state called non-existent “Nirvana”.

The first statue

It is believed that the first Buddha statue was only four or five hundred years after Buddha’s death created on respect. Therefore, the statues are not an exact copy of the person and there is no “right way” to represent him. The artist had the freedom of artistic expression in this area. But there are some features and symbolic features that you find at least one every Buddha statue.
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