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If you look at Japanese and Chinese paintings of Buddha, they don’t look like the Indian Buddha. They have changed him totally. If you look at Indian paintings of Buddha, his body is proportionate. It’s proportion as it should be. He was a Prince. Buddha was a beautiful man. Perfectly proportionate. A big bellied Buddha? He never had a big belly! But in Japan, in the paintings and th scriptures, he is painted with a big belly. Because a man who laughs must have a big belly!

Excerpted from ‘Zen: It’s History & Teaching’ by Osho