Vintage Sandalwood Hand Made Lord Buddha Statue - Buddha Sandalwood Statue - Handmade Buddha with Sandalwood -Vintage Home Decor hot

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Beautiful Lord Buddha Idol Craved finely from a single piece of natural sandalwood by master craftsman..
The perfectly engraved idol has four hands ....

Buddha is not a name, but a title. It is a Sanskrit word that means “a person who is awake.” What a buddha is awake to is the true nature of reality.

Simply put, Buddhism teaches that we all live in a fog of illusions created by mistaken perceptions and “impurities” — hate, greed, ignorance. A buddha is one who is freed from the fog. It is said that when a buddha dies he or she is not reborn but passes into the peace of Nirvana, which is not a “heaven” but a transformed state of existence.

Most of the time, when someone says the Buddha, it's in reference to the historical person who founded Buddhism. This was a man originally named Siddhartha Gautama who lived in what is now northern India and Nepal about twenty-five centuries ago.

He is believed by Buddhists to be an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering.

Accounts of his life, discourses and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarised after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.



About Statue -

Height - 4 inches ( 10 cm)

width - 2.5 inches ( 6.25)

Weight - 40 grams

year - 1970s

About Sandalwood - Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods for use.

Sandalwood is the second-most expensive wood in the world, after African blackwood. [dubious – discuss]

Both the wood and the oil produce a distinctive fragrance that has been highly valued for centuries.

Consequently, species of these slow-growing trees have suffered overharvesting in past centuries.

Sandalwood is expensive compared to other types of woods, so to maximize profit, sandalwood is harvested by removing the entire tree instead of sawing it down at the trunk close to ground level.

This way wood from the stump and root, which possesses high levels of sandalwood oil, can also be processed and sold..

Indian sandalwood is very sacred in hot the Hindu Ayurveda and is known in Sanskrit as chandana.

The wood is used for worshipping the god Shiva, and it is believed that goddess Lakshmi lives in the sandalwood tree.

The wood of the tree is made into a paste using sandalwood powder, and this paste is integral to rituals and ceremonies, to make religious utensils, to decorate the icons of the deities, and to calm the mind during meditation and prayer. It is also distributed to devotees, who apply it to their foreheads or necks and chests.
Preparation of the paste is a duty fit only for the pure, so is entrusted only to priests when used in temples and during ceremonies.