{"id":244,"date":"2010-03-16T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:57:13","slug":"introducing-our-new-happy-buddha-statues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/product-spotlight\/introducing-our-new-happy-buddha-statues","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our New Happy Buddha Statues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/oriental-furniture\/STA-BUD11.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Sitting Lucky Buddha Statue\" src=\"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/mm5\/graphics\/00000001\/STA-BUD11_1.jpg\" alt=\"Sitting Lucky Buddha Statue\" width=\"291\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>Today we enthusiastically announce the addition of a remarkable, beautiful new selection of cast reproductions of the ancient Asian icon, &#8220;Happy Buddha&#8221;, &#8220;Laughing Buddha&#8221;, &#8220;Fat Buddha&#8221;, or &#8220;Prosperity Buddha&#8221; statues. &#8220;Budai&#8221; in Chinese, &#8220;Hotei&#8221; in Japanese, he&#8217;s thought of as a guardian of the joy, luck, happiness, &amp; prosperity every household hopes to attract and retain.<\/p>\n<p>Hotei Buddha statues are depicted with mirth &amp; girth, symbolic of the happiness &amp; prosperity Budai or Hotei is thought bring to the home in Zen Buddhist, Shinto, Dao, or Taoist folk lore. It&#8217;s considered good luck to rub the &#8220;Buddha Belly&#8221; before beginning a new venture, entering into a contract, seeking a job, or taking a speculative risk; some refer to Budai or Hotei as the &#8220;Prosperity Buddha&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large, substantial statues of the classic Asian art icon, Hotei (Japanese), or Budai (Chinese), the \u201cHappy Buddha\u201d, \u201cLaughing Buddha\u201d, or \u201cLucky Buddha\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Very popular traditional Asian household guardian spirits, thought to attract &amp; protect prosperity, happiness, health, good luck, and family harmony.<\/li>\n<li>Made of beautiful cast black resin statue of a traditionally rendered original sculpture, with authentic, important symbolic detail, contented smile, lucky beads, &amp; bag of plenty.<\/li>\n<li>Each statue is carefully hand detailed with an outstanding, remarkably real looking faux bronze finish, an attractive reproduction of a centuries old antique bronze patina.<\/li>\n<li>A simple, intriguing, Asian style art accessory, and an interesting alternative holiday, birthday, housewarming, or anniversary gift idea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Statues or carvings of Hotei or Budai are sculpted with a large sack, a Santa Clause like sack of plenty. Whether you call him Happy Buddha, Laughing Buddha, or Prosperity Buddha, his sack, in modern vernacular, is symbolic of Hotei&#8217;s or Budai&#8217;s &#8220;phat&#8221;, the good kind, like the good kind of cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>Not just in Asia anymore, people all over the world bless their homes with Hotei Happy Buddha statues to attract good fortune, a reminder to be grateful that the glass is half full, that an attitude of gratitude helps fill the glass. If positive emotions encourage good health, is there a scientific reason that in classic Asian home decor, a Hotei statue is a ubiquitous decorative accessory?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Buddhas are different from meditating Buddhas, the spiritual Buddha of ancient India, symbolic of inner\u00a0 happiness, enlightenment under the Bodhi tree. Without the mirth, girth, and bald head of a Happy Buddha figure, the Gautama Buddha image is equally popular in Asian art, with a silent, serene visage, knotted hair &amp; top knot, hands in mudra positions. We offer a large selection of meditation Buddhas- sculptures, &amp; statues, paintings, &amp; prints of Sakyamuni Buddha, the Asoka prince Siddhartha, in Japanese, Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, Lao, &amp; Cambodian designs- even room dividers &amp; window blinds!<\/p>\n<p>Our collection of classic Hoteis &amp; Budais- Happy Buddha statues, includes 11 unique designs, in a wonderful selection of finishes, sizes, &amp; shapes. We offer standing &amp; sitting versions, each figure holding the traditional prayer beads that help the Laughing Buddha pray for the luck, joy, health &amp; wealth that bring felicity and laughter to well balanced households.<\/p>\n<p>Spend some time browsing our outstanding selection of both Happy Buddha &amp; Meditation Buddha statues. Choose one of each, to provide both a uniquely attractive Asian accent, and to attract the inner &amp; outer happiness necessary for a happy home. When looking for interesting alternatives to conventional holiday, birthday, wedding, anniversary, graduation or housewarming gifts, consider a Buddha statue, either a Happy Buddha or a Meditating Buddha, or, for authentic Zen balance, one of each!<br \/>\n\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we enthusiastically announce the addition of a remarkable, beautiful new selection of cast reproductions of the ancient Asian icon, &#8220;Happy Buddha&#8221;, &#8220;Laughing Buddha&#8221;, &#8220;Fat Buddha&#8221;, or &#8220;Prosperity Buddha&#8221; statues. &#8220;Budai&#8221; in Chinese, &#8220;Hotei&#8221; in Japanese, he&#8217;s thought of as a guardian of the joy, luck, happiness, &amp; prosperity every household hopes to attract and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.orientalfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}