Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. Lama Zopa Rinpoche tells the origin story of the first Buddha image. Artists struggled to capture the Buddha’s likeness until Buddha himself offered a solution: a reflection in water. From that reflection, they created the first painting, which became the standard model for all subsequent Buddha images. Because the original statue was fashioned from water ripples, it still bears those characteristic marks. This story explains why Buddha images show distinctive ripples, and Rinpoche notes the original statue rests in Russia, with countless copies distributed worldwide. In just 2 minutes, the talk delivers a luminous moment on Buddha’s compassionate resourcefulness.
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File: 2005 06 06 2 Taiwan nunnery -story ripples on pictures.mp3
Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: z Taiwan (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 2005-06-06
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Words: ~310
The Indians Indian Indian style art. Indian style art. I think there’s there’s a story. Maybe that maybe there’s a story that At the very beginning, statue of the Buddha. So statue of the the painting of Buddha.
So so they try to make a painting or statue of a painting. Buddha could so glorify many patient, but they could not could not make. Mhmm. So what about what happened? Buddha sent a reflection in the water.
Mhmm. Then then they drew from that Mhmm. In the painting of Buddha, the very first. Mhmm. So because of that because of that, you that because that that that statues you see the statues standing on, it looks like there’s a ring a ring ring ring.
Uh-huh. And the Buddha Buddha is full of full of like water. The water what do you call it? Water Water ripples. So so the original statue, that was original statue met from that reflection of the water.
So the statue was met that with a lot of ripples, just a reflection. So I think the statue is supposed to be in Russia. So it’s somewhere there. So sometimes you see there’s some small statues or pictures, you know, pictures of that statue or statue come there’s a lot of, you know, this reports the world. So that’s that’s from that original statue.