Gautam Buddha

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Buddha is bought for the room here, not for the puja Worth saying at the start, because it decides everything else: most people buying a Buddha in India are not Buddhist and are not setting one up for daily worship. The figure is bought for the calm of the form, for a living room, an entrance, a study or a desk. That is a perfectly good reason to own one. We sell these as sculpture rather than as puja pieces, nothing here is meant to be bathed, and none of it is a replacement for the deity your family already keeps. The range is small and worth being honest about. What we have is indoor and mostly meditating: wood, a dark painted finish, a small white and gold piece sized for a desk or a shelf, solid brass, and a wall panel that also sits in wall decor . Sizes run from a few inches up to about seventeen, and everything falls between 3,000 and 5,000. Where a Buddha should be kept, and who is actually saying so This is the most searched question about the figure, and almost every answer online quietly merges three separate traditions into one list. They are worth pulling apart, because they do not say the same thing and only one of them is Buddhist. Buddhist convention is about respect rather than direction. The figure is kept raised rather than on the floor, ideally at or above eye level, kept clean, not used as a stand for keys and phones, and not placed in a bathroom or facing directly into one. Feet are not pointed towards it. There is no compass rule anywhere in this, and a page that gives you one is not quoting Buddhist practice. Vastu shastra does give a direction. It holds that the east and the north-east suit a Buddha, the north-east being the quarter the tradition treats as the source of a household's vital energy, and that a position near the entrance facing into the room is favourable. Worth knowing as you read it: Vastu is a Hindu architectural tradition being applied to a figure from another religion, which is why it can be confidently specific in places