--- Yuttadhammo <buffer@...> cited:

> > the THINNEST religious people are Buddhists!

Interesting, especially in comparison to the myth -
quite common in the West - that the Buddha was fat. A
Pentecostalist preacher in Sweden (though he is of
Norwegian origin - sorry, Kåre!) recently called him,
in a sermon, "a brown burnt tin can, and an overweight
one" (_en brunbränd plåtburk, och en överviktig
sådan_).

(This saying got lost in the media reports, because he
was attacking Islam in the same sermon, and promptly
got a Fatwa...)

So: does anyone know wherefrom this idea comes? As far
as I know, South and South East Asian Buddha images
tend to be quite slim; Chinese ones are sometimes a
different matter, but do such images represent the
historical Buddha, Maitreya, or someone else?

Gunnar

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