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Picture of the Week: Budai (Laughing Buddha)

Picture of the Week: Budai (Laughing Buddha)

Tweet Budai, pronounced Hotei in Japanese, is a Chinese folkloric deity. His name means “Cloth Sack,”and comes from the bag that he is conventionally depicted as carrying. He is usually identified with (or as an incarnation of) Maitreya Buddha, so much so that the Budai image is one of the main forms in which Maitreya [...]

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