What are the texts which say or imply what the Buddha looked like?

Upvote:0

Sometimes the Buddha was invisible.

MN49:26.10: And while invisible I recited this verse: ‘Seeing the danger in continued existence—that life in any existence will cease to be—I didn’t welcome any kind of existence, and didn’t grasp at relishing.’

OyaMist 9274

Upvote:1

The Marks of a Great Man Lakkhaṇasutta

===========

The Buddha said this: Bhagavā etadavoca:

“There are thirty-two marks of a great man. A great man who possesses these has only two possible destinies, no other. “Dvattiṃsimāni, bhikkhave, mahāpurisassa mahāpurisalakkhaṇāni, yehi samannāgatassa mahāpurisassa dveva gatiyo bhavanti anaññā.

https://suttacentral.net/dn30/en/sujato

Further discussion.

https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28550&hilit=Buddha+look+like

SarathW 5619

📝 What are the sets of things in SN 1.44?
📝 How to show compassion for attention-seeker
📝 How to stop rejecting / avoiding things?
📝 How much time it takes to experience 4th jhana?
📝 Should we believe we have no enlightenment whatsoever?
📝 Best Pali to English translation source
📝 What's the shortest path to eradicate Mana (self-view)?
📝 When is it time to meditate and when is it time to act?
📝 Who is ignorant and when does one realize that one is ignorant?
📝 How does rebirth work for arahant and non-arahants?
📝 Minimum common grounds for all sotapanna and all arahant
📝 Health anxiety - how to deal with it?
📝 Pursuit of raising children ok?
📝 Buddhism and social roles
📝 Dilemma caused by differing viewpoints regarding soul and karma
📝 metta, anxiety, and anger
📝 What is Buddhist reality?
📝 Is this desire, to not be friendless anymore, healthy?
📝 Difference between satipatthana and vipassana
📝 Observing sensations during normal time.
📝 Buddhist Therapists?
📝 Buddhists advise against "me and mine" does that include times?
📝 I do not know what is my Dhamma anymore; Can anyone help?
📝 Converting knowledge into wisdom
📝 Buddhist's teaching on grief?
📝 Samatha meditation feels a space at the top of the head?
📝 Why we can not fulfill our desires?
📝 Must one move through the various jhanas to realise nibbana?
📝 Is there a german-language online-resource for the prajnaparamita sutra "perfection of wisdom in 8000 lines"?
📝 Sutta Question about 4 ways of debating

Source: stackoverflow.com

Travel Tips

Search Posts

📝 What are the texts which say or imply what the Buddha looked like?
📝 What are the texts that contain words which can be attributed directly to the Buddha?
📝 What are the suttas in which the Buddha provides instruction on how to meditate?
📝 What is the symbol sometimes depicted on images of the Buddha which looks like a swastika?
📝 What are the suttas in which the Buddha describes suffering as "burning"
📝 Are monks allowed to have prescriptions? What did the Buddha say of medicine?
📝 What did the Buddha say about music?
📝 Are the 16 stages of Insight mentioned by the Buddha in the early Pali texts or are they a later addition to the Dharma?
📝 What is Death? What did Buddha say regarding the experience of Death?
📝 What are the Eighteen Buddha Attributes?
📝 What does the Buddha mean by this quote? "There is no punishment for anger. It is the anger which will punish you."
📝 There is a text where Buddha says that the Dharma he teaches is not a secret doctrine so why are there sects which maintain secrecy?
📝 What is the text in which the Buddha gets a migraine?
📝 What do Buddhists religious texts say about the environment?
📝 What did the Buddha say about gratitude?
📝 What did the Buddha say about motivation?
📝 What is the sutta in which the Buddha described focusing the mind as similar to whittling?
📝 What are the catalysts in eightfold path which speed up our endeavor?
📝 Which texts are the most important to read in the Khuddaka Nikaya and why?
📝 What are Pali terms (and sutta references) for the 3 opposites, 3 doors, and 3 gifts, which are associated with the 3 characteristics of existence?
📝 What are the canonical texts for the Buddhisms of the world?
📝 What are the occasions did Panchasika or Pansilu meet the Buddha
📝 In what ways are the Advaita concept of 'Nirguna Brahman' and the Buddhist concept of Buddha Nature similar and different?
📝 What are the most prominent Tibetan Buddhist texts that are only written in Tibetan script?
📝 What are the sutta references for the Buddha unsuccessfully attempting to stop wars/battles?
📝 What did the Buddha say about sharing merit?
📝 What are the cylinders in front of the Buddha statue at Nanzō-in Temple, Japan?
📝 What are the texts of Vajrāyana Buddhism? And where can I get?
📝 In which context did the Buddha say this, about ordaining women?
📝 Which gift has more benefit for the giver? What are the dangers?

What are the texts which say or imply what the Buddha looked like?

More post

Search Posts

Related post