Talk:Physical characteristics of the Buddha

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Can someone please explain why Buddha is represented as thin in near-eastern (Indian) iconography and significantly more obese (and bald) in far-eastern manifestations?

Those far-eastern forms are of the future Budha Maitreya, represented by a person called pu-tai, who was widely believed to be him. Peter jackson (talk) 16:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Can some one explain what does this means "His sexual organs are concealed in a sheath (Pali: kosohitavatguyho). "..?

"He's not circumcised," presumably. -Dan 20:58, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Or he's just wearing a loin cloth. --172.206.146.215 09:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

The Pali could mean either organ or organs. The commentary says singular, & says it's like a buffalo, or the pericarp of a lotus, if that's any help. Peter jackson (talk) 16:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

This article containt significant amount of information. Unfortunately, this is an example of orphaned article. The title of the article make it impossible to search. Dharmakaya is the right term. I have linked dharmakaya article in Buddha article. So if the content of this article is shifited to Dharmakaya, more people get to read the information presented here. Vapour

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I think it would be confusing to merge the two. Dharmakaya is one of three "bodies" of the Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism: a philosophical subject. The physical characteristics of the Buddha are used mainly in the study and production of Buddhist art. The dharmakaya article is in the main (as I read it today) very difficult to understand. But to merge it with the physical attributes-page does not solve that. It is probably useful if both articles do link to each other, but a separate article on the physical characteristics of the buddha is certainly useful.

kh7 18:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Don't merge. Might retitle this "Nirmanakaya" or something. RandomCritic 05:03, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I heard that the number of curls on a Buddha statue/image is also fixed... I remember around 110 curls or so.. does anyone have a source/confirmation on this? (SuperMidget)

No, but 108 would be the likely auspicious number. Johnbod 16:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

The Pali in this article is full of mistakes. Perhaps it should be deleted until I or someone else with a lrdge of Pali gets round to sorting it out. Peter jackson 16:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I think somebody altered the list of 32 characteristics, because it doesn't make sense, and has some bizarre addtions. . . . some of which mention "Jabba the Hut[t]" and the average person having so many thousands of teeth. (CloneArmyCommander (talk) 02:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Vandalism

Can a wikipedia editor revert a vandalism on no. 29 in the list. It says "He votes Ron Paul". I don't want to do anything because I might inadvertently remove other revisions. 202.65.191.138 (talk) 04:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)