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By Barbara O'Brien, About.com Guide to Buddhism

Beautiful Buddhas

Monday January 12, 2009
old buddha

My colleague Kallie Szczepanski, Guide to Asian History, links to this 8th century Korean buddha and asks her readers if they have a favorite buddha.

That's a good question. I've looked at the biggest buddhas; what are the most beautiful buddhas? Is there a buddha figure somewhere that particularly moves you? If you want to nominate beautiful bodhisattvas, that's OK. I might do a future photo gallery of beautiful buddhas if I can get enough good photos. Oh, and you can leave answers at Kallie's blog, too.

I have two personal favorites. One is this old buddha from Longmen Grottoes, also shown in the photo in this post. The other is the 13th-century Java statue of Prajnaparamita (also here).

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