Bodhisattva buddhist deities statues

When did the use of statues in Buddhism begin? What did the Buddha himself advise on their use? And wat do the various Buddha statues mean?

In this text we answer all these questions and more.

This is a guide to Buddhist statues.

Of course, you could write a separate book about each chapter in this text (and in part that actually has been done by other authors), but for the ordinary person those books are often too detailed, while a general idea about what your Buddha image actually means and how you can use it can indeed be fun and engaging.

We hope to have found the right balance between detail and readability here.

You can use this text as a kind of short reference book to look up the meaning of your image at home, you can also just read through it and see if you can discover a deeper value in it that goes beyond the image of wood, metal or stone, the drawing or photo.

In order to be able to follow the whole thing, it helps to have