Buddha means teacher. Why Budai is called the Chinese Buddha. Folk hero that is credited with bringing buddhism to China. That’s the fat guy. Siddharth is the skinny one and is the founder of Buddhism. He is depicted traditional 8 ways, one of each day of the week with Wednesday getting two. That’s why if you go to a temple only 1 or at most 2 statues are getting attention that day
As you can tell … I’m not versed in Buddhist religion … I was just ignorantly noting the classical images of Buddhism (or at least what I know about it) and comparing them to Christian ones.
I still prefer a peaceful image of a happy religious figure than a bloody naked saviour dying on a cross.
I’m Indigenous Canadian … I’m full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario and I fluently speak my language. One of the strangest things I learned from my language was the descriptive word we use to identify Europeans, or white people … we call them ‘Mishtik-ooshoo’ … it’s a contraction of two words - ‘mishtik’ which refers to wood or sticks … and adding the ‘ooshoo’ at the end denotes that it is describing a person or people … the whole word literally means ‘people or person with a stick’ … when we first saw Europeans the most notable thing about them was that they honoured this little wooden stick that they wore and prayed to everywhere … later on they showed us how they decorated this little stick with a corpse and told us how wonderful and loving their religion was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budai
Buddha means teacher. Why Budai is called the Chinese Buddha. Folk hero that is credited with bringing buddhism to China. That’s the fat guy. Siddharth is the skinny one and is the founder of Buddhism. He is depicted traditional 8 ways, one of each day of the week with Wednesday getting two. That’s why if you go to a temple only 1 or at most 2 statues are getting attention that day
As you can tell … I’m not versed in Buddhist religion … I was just ignorantly noting the classical images of Buddhism (or at least what I know about it) and comparing them to Christian ones.
I still prefer a peaceful image of a happy religious figure than a bloody naked saviour dying on a cross.
I’m Indigenous Canadian … I’m full blooded Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario and I fluently speak my language. One of the strangest things I learned from my language was the descriptive word we use to identify Europeans, or white people … we call them ‘Mishtik-ooshoo’ … it’s a contraction of two words - ‘mishtik’ which refers to wood or sticks … and adding the ‘ooshoo’ at the end denotes that it is describing a person or people … the whole word literally means ‘people or person with a stick’ … when we first saw Europeans the most notable thing about them was that they honoured this little wooden stick that they wore and prayed to everywhere … later on they showed us how they decorated this little stick with a corpse and told us how wonderful and loving their religion was.
Wow! That is not what I expected to read today. Really interesting.
That is really cool. I love learning things like that. How would you pronounce mishtik-ooshoo? Or is it spelled phonetically?