"This piece is absolutely captivating!  You can almost see the life and soul in his face.  The detail in the carving and variations in grain and colour are stunning!. "
Brenda, Dharma Sculpture

This beautifully hand carved seated Buddha wears flowing imperial robes.  As one of the seven secondary possessions of the Buddha, it is said that his robe has the magical qualities of removing hunger, thirst, fatigue and illness, and that it is impervious to the attack of weapons, fire, water, wind, insects, dust, and the corrupting influence of curses.

In his right hand the Buddha holds a lotus flower, a major Buddhist symbol of renunciation, purity and freedom from the faults of cyclic existence.  In his left hand he holds a begging bowl, or alms bowl (Sanskrit: Patra), a simple yet important object in the daily lives of Buddhist monks.  It is used as a bowl in which to collect alms (either money or food) from lay supporters.  The patra also has symbolic significance associated with the historical Buddha.  According to one legend, when he began meditating beneath the Bodhi Tree, a young woman offered him a golden bowl filled with rice, thinking he was the divinity of the tree.  He divided the rice into 49 portions, one for each day until he would be enlightened, and threw the precious bowl into the river.  This and other legends, combined with its humble monastic uses, have made the simple begging bowl a symbol of the Buddha's teachings on nonattachment.

This wood sculpture is a one of a kind statue, hand carved by the artists of Bali, Indonesia.

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