Size: 15 inch / 38 cm
Material: MADE IN USA. Metal bonded with resin and antiqued by hand. There can be minor variations in color because antiquing is a natural process and gets richer with time. He can reside inside or in your garden.
The Story: This is the very first Buddha that we had carved to reproduce and share. It was clear what the feeling of the Buddha was that inspires me and my practice, but I had never seen him. I searched in books and temples and galleries for an image that emanated those magical qualities. Finally, on a hot, smoggy day in Bangkok in the early 1990s, after too much walking on noisy concrete streets, in my thin 'Blue Elephant' flip flops, that a nun at Suan Mokkh Forest Retreat had helped me choose, I stumbled into the shade of the Marble Palace—and there he was!!!
His mudra is called the Bhumisparsha mudra, 'Touching the Earth' or 'Calling the Earth to Witness'. This is the gesture the Buddha made while sitting under the Bodhi tree. He called the earth to witness his right to enlightenment and she did. I have always liked the connections with nature and the feminine in this, the most important hand symbol in the life of the Buddha.
