Study on Buddhas: Buddha on the Mountain

Well, I didn't manage to get my final blog from Hanoi sent from the before the taxi arrived. And there is not wifi (that I can access) at the Hanoi airport. That blog, and this one, will have to wait for Narita.

In the national art museum, I learned that there is a Buddha figure that I had never seen or heard of before.

Most of us know of the fat-bellied happy Buddha one sees in the shrines in Chinese/Vietnamese restaurants. We saw that Buddha in every Buddhist temple we visited in Vietnam too.
There is also the Indian style, who seems at peace (see last Hanoi blog).

Then there in the Buddha on the mountain. Here are three different examples:


Second one - in a further state of emaciation:


And even more emancipated.


Would like to look into this more deeply sometime. Seems like he's the suffering Buddha.

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